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Epigrams   on    Wosnan, 
Love,     ^b.  n  d     BeoLUty 

Collected    and    Edited    by 

G.   r.    MONKSHOOD 


New   York  Boston 

H.    M.    CALDWELL    CO. 


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TO 

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WITH    HOMAQH. 

O.  X*.  ML 


tlOHlX)!!,  1899. 


PREFACE 

Until  some  fortunate  being — wit^  student^  and 
man  of  the  world  {he  will  have  to  be  all 
three) — can^  in  a  cunningly  chosen  library^ 
write  the  history  of  the  Epgram^  and  the 
birth  and  growth  of  epigrammatic  thought^ 
we  shall  always  be  in  doubt  as  to  what  an 
epigram  isy  and  most  people  will  be  in  doubt 
as  to  where  the  best  epigrams  are.  The  word 
itself  is  as  difficult  to  define  as  its  own  es- 
sences-— wit^  humour^  style^  etc.  We  recognise 
the  epigram  when  uttered  or  printed  just  as 
swiftly  as  we  recognise  beauty  in  a  woman^ 
yet  rarely  can  we  describe  either.  The  sheer 
study  that  awaits  the  historian  of  the  Epigram 
haSy  doubtless y  been  a  great  deterrent;  he 
would  have  to   consider  epigrams  from   the 


PREFACE 

Bible  and  the  apocryphal  writings  down- 
wards! In  ''^  Woman  and  the  TVits''  I  kave 
brought  together  some  of  the  wisest^  wittiest^ 
and  tenderest  epigrams^  proverbs^  axioms^ 
adages  or  shorty  pithy  sentences— call  them 
what  you  will — relating  to  the  woman  and 
women^  and  also  to  the  passions^  affections^ 
sentiments^  and  emotions  generally. 

My  thanks  are  aue  principally  to  Mr, 
Morton  and  Mr,  Du  Bois  for  many  excellent 
epigrams  and  for  hints  as  to  arrangement, 

G,  F.  MONKSHOOD. 

London,  1 8pp. 


Woman  and  the  Wits 


Second  thoughts   are  best.     Gkxi  created  maD; 

woman  was  the  after-thought. 

Proverb. 


I  have  been  ready  to  believe  that  we  have 
seen  a  new  revelation,  and  the  name  of  its 
Messiah  is  woman.  Holmes. 


The  whisper    of    a    beautiful  woman   can  be 
heard  further  than  the  loudest  call  of  duty. 

Anonymoiis. 


The  man  who  enters  his  wife's  dressing-room 

\s  either  a  philosopher  or  a  fool. 

Balzac. 


Be  circumspect  in  your  liaisons  with  women. 
It  is  better  to  be  seen  at  the  opera,  with  this 
man  th&n  to  be  seen  at  mass  with  that  woman. 

Mme,  de  MaitUenon. 


Two  women  pltM^ed  together  make  cold  weather. 

Shake^eare. 

I  have  seen  many  instances  of  women  running 
to  waste  and  self-neglect,  and  disappearing  gradu- 
ally from  the  earth,  almost  as  if  they  had  been 

exhaled  to  heaven. 

Washington  Irving. 


Physical  love  is  an  ephemeral  spark  designed 
to  kindle  in  human  hearts  the  flame  of  a  more 
lasting  love.     It  is  the  outer  court  of  the  temple. 

Sabatier. 


Between  the  mouth    and    the    kiss,   there  is 
always  time  for  repentance.  Eicard. 


Love  decreases  when  it  ceases  to  increase. 

Chateaubricmd, 


Partake  of  love  as  a  temperate  man  partakes 
of  wine;  do  not  become  intoxicated. 

De  Mussel, 


A  woman  never  commands  a  man,  unless  he 
be  a  fool,  but  by  her  obedience. 

Turkish  Spy. 


SSEoman  antr  t^t  WBiiB 

Many  benefit  by  the  caresses  they  have  not 
inspired;  many  a  vulgar  reality  serves  as  a 
pedestal  to.  an  ideal  idol.  GaiUier. 


In  the  highest  society,  as  well  as  in  the  lowest, 
woman  is  merely  an  instrument  of  pleasure. 

Tolstoi. 

Women  know  at  first  sight  the  character  of 
those  with  whom  they  converse.  There  is  much 
to  give  them  a  religious  height  to  which  men  do 
not  attain.  Emerson. 


"Women  see  through  and  through  each  other; 
and  often  we  most  admire  her  whom  they  most 
scorn.  Buxton. 


Woman  is  a  miracle  of  divine  contradictions. 

Michelet. 

Before  going  to  war  say  a  prayer ;  before  going 
to  sea  say  two  prayers;  before  marrying  say 
three  prayers.  Proverb. 

If  marriages  are  made  in  Heaven  you  had  but 
few  friends  there.  Scotch  Proverb. 


(BHcman  antr  tje  WBitB 

A  man  should  choose  for  a  wife  only  such  a  woman 
I  he  would  choose  for  a  friend,  were  she  a  man. 

Joubert. 


I  think  Nature  and  an  angry  God  produced 
thee  to  the  world,  thou  wicked  sex,  to  be  a 
plague  to  man  Ariosto, 

Women  enjoy  more  the  pleasure  they  give 
than  the  pleasure  they  feel. 

Rochepedre. 

Woman's  tongue  is  her  sword,  which  she  never 
lets  mst,  Mme.  Necker. 

Wife  and  children  are  a  kind  of  discipline  ol 
humanity.  Bacon, 

Feminine  charity  renews  every  day  the  miracle 
of  Christ  feeding  a  multitude  with  a  few  loaves 
and  fishes,  Legouvd, 

On  seeing  a  lady  sitting  at  the  dinner-table 
between  two  Bishops,  Sydney  Smith  inquired, 
"  Her  name  is  Susanna,  I  assume  % " 


With  cleverness,  thirty  years,  and  a  little 
beauty,  a  woman  makes  fewer  conquests  but  more 
durable  ones.  Dupuy. 


Women  who  marry  seldom  act  but  once  ;  their 
lot  is,  ere  they  wed,  obedience  unto  a  father, 
thenceforth  to  a  husband.  Ma/rston. 


It  is  woman's  way.  They  always  love  colour 
better  than  form,  rhetoric  better  than  logic, 
priestcraft  better  than  philosophy,  and  flourishes 
better  than  figures.  Anonymous. 


A  prude  exhibits  her  virtue  in  word  and 
manner;  a  virtuous  woman  shows  hers  in  her 
conduct.  La  Bruyhre, 


Tears  are  the  strength  of  women. 

Saint-Evremond. 


A  woman's  best  qualities  do  not  reside  in  her 
intellect,  but  in  her  affections.  She  gives  refresb- 
ment  by  her  sympathies  rather  than  by  her 
knowledge.  Smiles, 


A  woman's  thoughts  run  before  her  actions. 

Shakespeare, 


It  is  valueless  to  a  woman  to  be  young  unless 
pretty,  or  to  be  pretty  unless  young. 

La  Mochefoucauld» 


Silence  and  modesty  are  the  best  ornaments 
of  women.  Euripides. 

The  plainest  man  who  pays  attention  to  women 
will  sometimes  succeed  as  well  as  the  handsomest 
who  does  not,  Colton. 


A  woman  can  be  held  by  no  stronger  tie  than 
the  knowledge  that  she  is  loved. 

Mme.  de  MotteviUe, 


As  vivacity  is  the  gift  of  women,  gravity  is 
that  of  men.  Addison. 


Women  are  passive    agents,   and    when   love 
prompts  them  they  can  outsuffer  martyrs. 

Massinger. 


Between  two  beings  susceptible  to  love,  the 
duration  of  love  depends  upon  the  first  resistance 
of  the  woman,  or  the  obstacles  that  society  puts 
in  their  way.  Balzac. 


A  woman  (of  the  right  kind)  reading  after  a 
man,  follows  him  as  Ruth  followed  the  reapers 
of  Boaz,  and  her  gleanings  are  often  the  finest  of 
the  wheat.  Holmes, 


To  a  woman  of  spirit,  the  most  intolerable  of 
all  grievances  is  a  restraint  on  the  liberty  of  the 
tongue.  Junius. 


If  women  were  humbler  men  would  be  honester. 

Vanbrugh. 


These  women  are  shrewd  tempters  with  theii 
tongues.  Shakespea/re, 


Nature  makes  fools ;  women  make  coxcombs. 

Arumymous. 


No  friendship  is  so  cordial  or  so  delicious  as 
that  of  girl  for  girl ;  no  hatred  so  intense  or 
immovable  as  that  of  woman  for  woman. 

Landor. 


"Women  are  priestesses  of  the  unknown. 

Anonymoui, 


To  give  you  nothing  and  to  make  you  expect 
everything,  to  dawdle  on  the  threshold  of  love 
while  the  doors  are  closed,  this  is  all  the  science 
of  a  coquette.  De  Bema/rd, 


Men  always  say  more  evil  of  a  woman  than 
there  really  is ;  and  there  is  always  more  than  is 
known.  Mezeray, 


Neither  walls,  nor  goods,  nor  anything  is  more 
difficult  to  be  guarded  than  woman. 

Alexis, 


Would  you  hurt  a  woman   most,  aim  at  her 
affeotionflL  Wallace, 


A  wise  man  ought  often  to  admonish  his  wife, 
to  reprove  her  seldom,  but  never  to  lay  hands  on 
her.  Marcus  Aurelius. 


A  woman    of    honour    should    never    suspect 
another  of  things  she  would  not  do  herself. 

Marguerite  de  Valois. 


We  only   demand  that    a  woman    should  be 
womanly;  which  is  not  being  exclusive. 

Leigh  HunL 

Man    forsakes     Christianity    in    his    labours; 

woman  cherishes  it  in  her   solitudes  and  trials. 

Man  lives  by  repelling,  woman  by  enduring — ^and 

here  Christianity  meets  her. 

Cha/mning, 

It  is  not  easy  to  be  a  widow ;  one  must  resume 

all  the  modesty  of  girlhood,  without  being  allowed 

even  to  feign  ignorance. 

Mme.  de  Gira/rdin, 


A  woman's  hopes  are  woven  as  sunbeams;  » 

shadow  annihilates  them. 

George  JSlioL 


Women  cannot  see  so  far  as  men  can,  but  what 
they  do  see  they  see  quicker.  Buckle. 


The    more    idle    a  woman's    hand,   the   more 
occupied  her  heart.  Dvhay. 


Women  speak  easily  of  platonic  love ;  but  while 
they  appear  to  esteem  it  highly,  there  is  not  a 
single  ribbon  of  their  toilet  that  does  not  drive 
platonism  from  our  hearts.  Rxcard. 


If  woman  did  turn  man  oat  of  Paradise,  she 
has  donfi  her  best  ever  since  to  make  it  up  to  him. 

Skddon, 


A  man  cannot  possess  anything  that  is  better 
than  a  good  woman,  nor  anything  that  is  worse 
than  a  bad  one.  Simonides. 


A  virtuous  woman  is  a  crown  to  her  husband ; 
but  she  that  maketh  ashamed  is  as  rottenness  in 
his  bonok  Solomon. 


How  wisely  it  is  constituted  that  tender  and 
gentle  women  shall  be  our  earliest  guides — instill- 
ing their  own  spirits.  Channing. 


Let  woman  stand  upon  her  female  character  as 
upon  a  foundation.  Lamb. 


The  modest  virgin,  the  prudent  wife,  and  the 
careful  matron  are  much  more  serviceable  in  life 
than  petticoated  philosophers,  blustering  char- 
acters, or  virago  queens.  Goldsmith. 


A  heart  which  has  been  domesticated  by  matri- 
mony and  maternity  is  as  tranquil  as  a  tame 
bullfinch.  Holmes. 


li  men  knew  all  that  women  think,  they  would 
be  twenty  times  more  audacious.  Karr. 


A  beautiful   woman  pleases   the  eye,  a  good 

woman   pleases   the   heart;   one   is   a  jewel,   the 
other  a  treasure.  Napoleon  I, 


II 


?l2aoman  antr  tje  ^IHite 

Women  especially  are  to  be  talked  to  aa  below 
men  and  above  children.  Chesterfield, 


When  joyous,  a  woman's  licence  is  not  to  be 
endured ;  when  in  terror,  she  is  a  plague. 

^schyliLS, 

Modesty  in  woman  is  a  virtue  most  deserving, 
since  we  do  all  we  can  to  cure  her  of  it. 

Lingr6e, 

When  we  speed  to  the  devil's  house,  woman 
takes  the  lead  by  a  thousand  steps. 

Goethe, 

When  a  woman  pronounces  the  name  of  a  man 
but  twice  a  day,  there  may  be  some  dt<ubt  as  to 
the  nature  of  her  sentiments ;  but  three  times ! 

BalzcbC, 


Women  know  by  nature  how  to  disguise  their 
emotions  far  better  than  the  most  consummate 
male  courtier  can  do.  Thackeray. 


Beauty  is  worse  than  wine ;  it  intoxicates  both 
the  holder  and  the  beholder.  Zimmerman, 


ts 


"Woman  alone  knows  true  loyalty  of  affection. 

SMUer, 


Women  are  never  stronger  than  when  they  arm 
themselves  with  their  weakness. 

Mme,  du  Deffand, 


Women  are  apt  to  see  chiefly  the  defects  of  a 
man  of  talent  and  the  merits  of  a  fool. 

Anonymous. 


Women  have  a  perpetual  envy  of  our  vices; 
they  are  less  vicious  than  we,  not  from  choice,  but 
because  we  restrict  them ;  they  are  the  slaves  of 
order  and  fashion.  Johnson. 


It  is  generally  a  feminine  eye  that  first  detects 
the  moral  deficiencies  hidden  under  the  "dear 
deceit "  of  beauty.  George  Eliot. 


I  detest  those  women  who  mount  the  pulpit 
and  lay  their  passions  bare. 

Eugenie  de  Guerin, 


Of  all  men,  Adam  was  the  happiest ;  he  had  no 
mother-in-law.  Parfait. 


Beloved  darlings,  who  cover  over  and  shadow 
many  malicious  purposes  with  a  counterfeit  passion 
of  dissimulate  sorrow  and  unquietness. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh, 


A  mother's   tenderness    and  caresses   are   the 
milk  of  the  heart,  Eugenie  de  Gu^n, 


Lovers  have  in  their  language  an  infinite  nnmher 
of  words  in  which  each  syllable  is  a  caress. 

Bochepedre. 


To  love  is  the  least  of  the  faults  of  a  loving 
woman.  La  Rochefoucauld. 


What  is  it  that  renders  friendship  between 
women  so  lukewarm  and  of  so  short  a  duration? 
It  is  the  interests  of  love  and  the  jealousy  of 
ccmquest.  Rousseau, 


There  is  nothing  in  love  but  what  we  Imagine. 

St.  Beuve. 


I  am  a  Btrennons  advocate  for  liberty  and  pro- 
perty, but  when  these  rights  are  invaded  by  a 
pretty  woman,  I  am  neither  able  to  defend  my 
money  nor  my  freedom.  Junius, 


There  are  more  people  who  wish  to  be  loved 
than  there  are  who  are  willing  to  love, 

Chamfort, 

To  edncate  a  man  is  to  form  an  individual  who 
leaves  nothing  behind  him  j  to  educate  a  woman 
is  to  form  future  generations. 

Lahoulaye, 


There  are  no  women  to  whom  virtue  comes 
easier  than  those  who  possess  no  attractions. 

Anonymous. 


In  courting  women,  many  dry  wood  for  a  fire 
that  wiU  not  bum  for  them.  Balzac 


IS 


It  is  no  more  possible  to  do  without  a  wife  than 
it  is  to  dispense  with  eating  and  drinking. 

Luther. 


God  created  the  coquette  as  soon  as  he  made 
the  fool.  Victor  Hugo, 


The  sweetest  thing  in  life  is  the  unclouded 
welcome  of  a  wife.  WiUU. 


Trust  not  a  woman,  even  when  dead. 

LcUin  Proverb, 


I  have  seen  more  than  one  woman  drown  her 
honour  in  the  clear  water  of  diamonds. 

Comtesse  dHoudetot, 


Who  trusts  himself  to  woman  or  to  waves  should 
never  hazard  what  he  fears  to  lose. 

Oldndason, 


It  is  vanity  that  renders  the  youth  of  women 
culpable  and  their  old  age  ridiculous. 

Mnie,  de  t^ionaa. 


HHoman  antr  i^t  W&iitsi 

There  are  three  things  that  women  throw  away 
-their  time,  their  money,  and  their  health. 

Madame  Geoffrin. 


The  pleasant  man  a  woman  will  desire  for  her 
own  sake,  but  the  languishing  lover  has  nothing 
XX)  hope  from  but  her  pity.  Steele, 


"Woman  is  an  overgrown  child  that  one  amuses 
with  toys,  intoxicates  with  flattery,  and  seduces 
with  promises.  Sophie  Arnould. 


True  modesty  protects  a  woman  better  than  her 
garments.  Anonymous. 


Woman  is  the  sweetest  present  that  God  ha« 
given  to  man.  Guya/td. 


Coquetry  is  the  desire  to  please,  without  the 
want  of  love.  Mochepedre. 


If 


Before  marriage,   woman    is    a    queen;    after 
marriage,  a  subject.  De  Maintenon. 


Coquetry  is  a  continual  lie,  which  renders  a 
woman,  more  contemptible  and  more  dangerous 
than  a  courtesan  who  never  lies. 

2)e  Ya/rennea. 


The  test  of  civilisation  is  the  estimate  of  woman 

Cwtis, 


Provided  a  woman  be  well-prindpled  she  has 
dowry  enough.  Plautus, 


The  more  women  have  risked,  the  more  they 
are  willing  to  sacrifice.  DttcloM* 


%,  flattered  woman  is  always  indulgent. 

Chenier. 


Beauty  is  the  eye*s  food  and  the  soul's  sorrow. 

Otrmtm  Fraverb. 


?i2aoman  anb  tf^t  WHin 

Some  cunning  men  choose  fools  for  their  wives, 
thinking  to  manage  them,  but  they  always  fail. 

Johnson. 


A  termagant  wife  may,  therefore,  in  some  re- 
spects be  considered  a  tolerable  blessing. 

Washington  Irving. 


Divination    seems   heightened    to    its   highest 
power  in  woman.  Bronson  Alcott. 


Silence  has  been  given  to  woman  to  better  ex- 
press her  thoughts.  Besnoyers. 


The  society  of  women  endangers  men's  morals 
and  refines  their  manners. 

Montesquieu. 


Women  are  supernumerary  when  present,  and 
missed  when  absent. 

Portuguese  Proverb. 


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The  virtuous  woman  who  falls  in  love  is  much 
to  be  pitied.  La  Rochefoucauld. 


A  coquette  is  mor*^  occupied  with  the  homage 
we  refuse  her  than  with  what  we  bestow  upon 
hw.  Dupuy. 


Women  are  extremiPtfc ;  they  are  either  better 
or  worse  than  men.  La  Bruyere, 


Woman  is  the  crime  of  man.  She  has  been 
his  victim  since  Eden.  She  wears  on  her  flesh  the 
trace  of  six  thousand  years  of  injustice. 


Socrates  studied  under  Aspasia,  and  Aspasia 
governed  the  world  under  the  name  of  Pericles. 

Houasa/y^ 


The  erne  who  has  read  the  book  that  is  called 
woman  knows  more  than  the  one  who  has  grown 
pale  in  libraries.  ffoussaye. 


i 


Woman  is  the  eighth  capital  sin,  but  she  is 
perhaps  the  fourth  theological  virtue. 


All  passions  are  good  when  one  masters  them,      ^ 

Bousseau, 


Consideration  for  woman  is  the  measure  of  a 
nation's  progress  in  social  life. 

Gregoire, 


There  is  something  of  woman  in  everything 
that  pleases.  Dupaty. 


No  man  has  yet  discovered  the  means  of  giving 
successfully  friendly  advice  to  women — ^not  even 
to  his  own.  Balzac. 


The  anger  of  a  woman  is  the  greatest  evil  with 
which  one  can  threaten  enemies. 

ChiOon. 


^ISEoman  anlr  tljt  91Htt0 

I  would  have  a  woman  as  true  as  death.  At 
the  first  real  lie  that  works  from  the  heart  out- 
ward, she  should  be  tenderly  chloroforiQed  into  a 
better  world.  Holmes. 


There  is  no  jewel  in  the  world  so  valuable  as  a 
chaste  and  virtuous  woman.  Cervantes. 


Nature  has  given  to  women  fortitude  enough 
to  resist  a  certain  time,  but  not  enough  to  resist 
completely  the  inclination  which  they  cherish. 

Dorat. 


Without  woman  the  two  extremes  of  life  would 
be  without  succour,  and  the  middle  without 
pleasure.  AnonyinoiM. 

In  all  eras  and  aU  climes  a  woman  of  great 
genius  or  beauty  has  done  what  she  chose. 

Ouida. 


He  that  hath  wife  and  children  hath  given 
hostages  to  fortune ;  for  they  are  impediments 
to  great  enterprises,  either  of  virtue  or  mischief. 

JBcKon. 


?12aoman  anlr  tjf  WBit^ 

A  woman  would  be  in  despair  if  Nature  had 
fonned  her  as  fashion  makes  her  appear. 

McUle.  de  Lespinasse. 


The  resistance  of  a  woman  is  not  always  a  proof 
of  her  virtue,  but  more  frequently  of  her  ex- 
perience. Ninon  de  VEnclos, 


What  a  wilful,  wayward  thing  is  woman ! 
Even  in  their  best  pursuits  so  loose  of  soul  that 
every  breath  of  passion  shakes  their  frame. 

Francis, 


The  love  of  woman  is  universally  for  one  man. 
Even  though  degraded,  half-unsexed,  outcast, 
abandoned  to  despair,  she  inflexibly  seeks  her 
individual  own.  Broume, 

Rascal !  that  word  on  the  lips  of  a  woman, 
addressed  to  a  too  daring  man,  often  means  angel ! 

Anonymous, 

Why  should  man,  who  is  strong,  always  get  the 
best  of  it,  and  be  forgiven  so  much ;  and  woman 
who  is  weak,  get  the  worst  and  be  forgiven  so 
Uttlel  Mrs  W.  K,  Clifford. 


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Women.     Their   love  first    inspires    the  poet, 
and  their  praise  is  his  best  reward. 

Hohne», 


Women  have  no  worse  enemies  than  women. 


With  what  hope  can  we  endeavour  to  persuade 
the  ladies  that  the  time  spent  at  the  toilet  is  lost 
in  vanity.  Johnson, 


A  mother's  prayers,  silent  and  gentle,  can  never 
miss  the  road  to  the  throne  of  all  bounty. 

Beechar, 


Yenus  always  saves  the  lover  whom  she  leads. 

DeUUouchB* 


A  good-tempered  woman,  of  the  order  yclept 
buxom,  not  only  warrants  a  pair  of  expansive 
shooldera,  but  bespeaks  our  approbation  of  them. 

Leigh  Sunk 


Men  lore  at  first  and  most  warmly;  women 
love  last  and  longest.  This  is  natural  enough; 
for  nature  makes  women  to  be  won  and  men  to 
win.  Curtis, 


What  wo  call  in  men  wisdom  is  in  women 
prudence.  It  is  a  partiality  to  call  one  greater 
than  the  other.  Steele, 


An  undoubted,  uncontested,  conscious  beauty 
is,  of  all  women,  the  least  sensible  of  flattery. 

Chesterfield, 


Women  who  have  not  fine  teeth  laugh  only  with 
their  eyes.  Mme,  de  Bieux, 


Women  generally  consider  consequences  in  love, 
sddom  in  resentment.  Caiton, 


Woo  the  widow  whilst  she  is  in  weeds. 

Qermam  FroTjm^ 


USaoman  anti  tfte  ^MiU 

Wounds  of  the  heart !  your  traces  are  bitter, 
alow  to  heal,  and  always  ready  to  re-open. 

De  Musset. 


The  head  is  always  the  dupe  of  the  heart. 

La  Rochefoucauld. 


O  women !  yon  are  very  extraordinary  children, 

Diderot. 


There  are  different  kinds  of  love,  but  they  have 
all  the  same  aim :  possession. 

Boqueplan. 


A  man  who  can  love  deeply  is  never  utterly 
contemptible.  Balzac^ 


If  love  gives  wit  to  fools,  it  undoubtedly  takes 
it  from  wits.  A,  Karr. 


The  great  defect  in  men  is  that  they  never  put 
themselves  in  the  place  of  the  woman  they  judge. 

Mme.  D^Epinay. 


SSSoman  ant)  ti)e  Wiitsi 

There  is  not  a  love,  however  violent  it  may  be, 
to  which  ambition  and  interest  do  not  add  some- 
thing.        La  Bruyhre. 

A  man  philosophises  better  than  a  woman  on 
the  human  heart,  but  she  reads  the  hearts  of  men 
better  than  he.  Rousseau. 


What  a  woman  should  demand  of  a  man  in 
courtship,  or  after  it,  is,  first,  respect  for  her,  as 
she  is  a  woman ;  and  next  to  that,  to  be  respected 
by  him  above  all  other  women. 

Lamb. 


A  beautiful  and  chaste  woman  is  the  perfect 
workmanship  of  God,  the  true  glory  of  angels,  the 
rare  miracle  of  earth,  and  the  sole  wonder  of  the 
world.  Hermes. 

Just  corporeal  enough  to  attest  humanity,  yet 
sufficiently  transparent  to  let  the  celestial  origin 
shine  through.  Euffini. 

If  we  wish  to  know  the  political  and  moral  con- 
dition of  a  State,  we  must  ask  what  rank  women 
hold  in  it.  Their  influence  embraces  the  whole  of 
life.  Aimi  Martin. 


A  woman, — where  can  she  put  her  hope  in 
storms,  if  not  in  Heaven  f  Mitchell. 


Woman's  heart  is  like  a  Kthographer*s  stone, — 
what  is  once  written  upon  it  cannot  be  rubbed 
out.  Thackeray/, 

The  lives  of  a  multitude  of  women  all  around  ns 
contain  a  large  element  of  unsuccessful  outward  or 
inward  ambitions, — vain  attempts  and  prayers. 

Alger. 

An  ideal  type,  in  which  meekness,  gentleness, 
patience,  humility,  faith  and  love  are  the  most 
prominent  features,  is  not  naturally  male,  but 
female.  Lecky. 

Even  though  the  wife  be  little,  bow  down  to  her 
in  speaking.  Talmud, 

The  Tainest  woman  is  never  thoroughly  con- 
scious of  her  own  beauty  till  she  is  loved  by  the 
who  sets  her  own  passion  vibrating  in  return 

George  MioL 


Tis  a  terrible  thing  that  we  cannot  wish  young 
ladies  well  without  wishing  them  to  become  old 
women.  Johnson. 


We  men  have  no  right  to  say  it,  but  the  omni- 
potence of  Eve  is  in  humility. 


Emerson. 


Rejected  lovers  need  never  despair !  There  are 
f  our-and-twenty  hours  in  a  day,  and  not  a  moment 
in  the  twenty-four  in  which  »  woman  may  not 
change  her  mind.  De  Finod, 


There  are  few  husbands  whom  the  wife  cannot 

win  in  the  long  run  by  patience  and  love,  unless 

they  are  harder  than  the  rocks  which  the  soft 

water  penetrates  in  time. 

Ma/rgtierite  de  VcUois. 


^e  only  true  and  firm  friendship  is  that  be- 
tween man  and  woman,  because  it  is  the  only 
affection  exempt  from  actual  or  possible  rivalry. 

A,  ConUe, 


The  yoke  of  love  is  sometimes  heavier  than  that 
of  aU  the  virtues.  Montaigne, 


Love  is  the  poetry  of  the  senses. 


BiOasae. 


Love  is  the  beginning,  the  middle  and  the  end 
of  everything.  *  Lacordaire. 


Women  are  constantly  the  dupes,  or  the  victims 
of  their  extreme  sensitiveness.  Balzac. 


When  a  man  says  he  has  a  wife,  it  means  that 
a  wife  has  him.  Gavarni, 


Woman  is  more  constant  in  hatred  than  in  love. 

Atwnymoua, 


A  woman  dies  twice  ;  the  day  that  she  quits  life 
and  the  day  that  she  ceases  to  please. 

We%88. 


Love  is  the  association  of  two  beings  for  the 
benefit  of  one.  Countens  Nathcdxe. 


What  ft  woman  wills,  God  wills. 


Proverb. 


Some  women  kindle  emotion  so  rapidly  in  a 
man's  heart,  that  the  judgment  cannot  keep  pace 
with  it.  Hardy, 

The  Bible  says  that  woman  is  the  last  thing 
which  Gk>d  made.  He  must  haye  made  it  on 
Saturday  night.     It  shows  fatigue. 

Dumaa. 


Woman's  power  is  for  rule,  not  for  battle ;  and 
her  intellect  is  not  for  invention  or  creation,  but 
for  iweet  ordering,  arrangement  and  decision. 


Woman  is  a  delightful  musical  instrument,  of 
which  love  is  the  bow  and  man  the  artist. 

BayU, 

Fit  the  same  intellect  to  a  man,  and  it  is  a  bow- 
string J  to  a  woman,  and  it  is  a  harpstring. 

EolmsM» 


A   clip  of  a  wife  roasts  her   husband,  stout- 
hearted though  he  may  be,   without  a  fire,  and 

hands  him  over  to  premature  old  age. 

Eedod. 


There  are  three  things  I  have  always  loved  and 
have  never  understood  —  painting,  music,  and 
woman.  Fontenelh. 

Learned  women  have  lost  all  credit  by  their  im- 
pertinent talkativeness  and  conceit. 

Swift. 

The  coquette  c<>mpromises  her  reputation,  and 

sometimes   even  her   virtue;    the  prude,   on  the 

contrary,  often  sacrifices  h©r  honour  in  private, 

and  preserves  it  in  public. 

Mme.  du  Socage, 


When  a  woman  has  explicitly  condemned  a  given 
action,  she  apparently  gathers  courage  for  its  com- 
mission under  a  little  different  conditions. 

HoweOs. 


The  homage  of  a  man  may  be  delightful  until 
he  asks  straight  for  love,  by  which  woman  renders 
homage.  Oeorge  Mid, 


HHoman  anii  t])$  Witt» 

The  Divine  Right  of  Beauty  is  the  only  one  an 
Englishman  ought  to  acknowledge,  and  a  pretty 
woman  is  the  only  tyrant  he  is  not  authorised  to 
resist.  Junius, 


The  beauty  of  a  lovely  woman  is  like  music. 

George  MioL 


If  there  be  any  one  whose  power  is  in  beauty,  in 
purity,  in  goodness,  it  is  woman. 

Wo/rd  Beecher, 


God  created  woman  only  to  tame  man. 

Voltaire. 


O  woman  !  it  is  thou  that  causeth  the  tempests 
that  agitate  mankind.  Eousseau. 


The  laughter,   the  tears,  and  the  song  of  a 

woman  are  equally  deceptive. 

LcUin  Proverb. 


13 


A  woman's  lot  is  made  for  her  by  the  love  she 
accepts.  George  Eliot, 


Woman  is  an  idol  that  man  worships  until  he 
throws  it  down.  Anonymous. 


She  who  dresses  for  others  besides  her  husband, 
marks  herself  a  wanton.  Ewripides. 


With  soft  persuasive  prayers  woman  wields  the 
sceptre  of  the  life  which  she  charmeth. 

SchiOer, 


Men  are  the  cause  of  women's  dislike  for  one 
another.  La  Bruyh-e. 


The  beautiful  woman  always  gives  me  joy,  and 
high  mind,  too,  if  I  think  what  she  does  for  me, 

Eeinnuir. 


"Women  have  the  genius  of  charity.  A  man 
gives  but  his  gold;  a  woman  adds  to  it  her 
sympathy.  Legouv^. 

A  woman's  preaching  is  like  a  dog*s  walking  on 
his  hind  legs.  It  is  not  done  well,  but  you  are 
surprised  to  find  it  done  at  aU. 

Johnson. 


The  only  way  to  get  the  upper  hand  of  a 
woman,  is  to  be  more  woman  than  she  is  herself. 

Anonymous. 

The  devastating  egotism  of  man  is  properly 
foreign  to  woman  ;  though  there  are  many  women 
as  haughty,  hard  and  imperious  as  any  man. 

Alger, 

There  are  some  women  who  think  virtue  was 
given  them  as  claws  were  given  to  cats — to  do 
nothing  but  scratch  with.  JerrM, 


An  immodest  woman  is  food  without  salt. 

Ardbicm  Proverb, 


The  evil  in  women  is  usually  communicated  by 
men.  Much  of  the  deceit  of  which  they  are 
accused  is  the  effect  of  masculine  inoculation. 

BraufM, 


The  lover  never  sees  personal  resemblances  in 
his  mistress  to  her  kindred  or  to  others. 

Emerson, 


The  friendship  of  a  man  is  often   a  support; 
that  of  a  woman  is  always  a  consolation. 

Eochepedre, 


Woman  is  the  blood  royal  of  life ;  let  there  be 
slight  degrees  of  precedence  among  them,  but  let 
them  all  be  sacred.  Bunu, 


The  woman  who  is  resolved  to  be  respected 
can  ms^e  herself  to  be  so,  even  amidst  an  army 
of  soldiers.  Cervamies, 


To  form  devices  quick  is  woman's  wit. 

Bwr%fid99. 


Woman's  power  is  over  the  affections.  A 
beautiful  dominion  is  herSj  but  she  risks  its 
forfeiture  when  she  seeks  to  extend  it. 


To  remain  virtuous,  a  man  has  only  to  combat 
his  own  desires;  a  woman  must  resist  her  own 
inclinations  and  the  continual  attack  of  man. 

De  Latena. 


A  cunning  woman  is  a  knavish  fool. 

I^ttleton, 

A  woman  often  thinks  she  regrets  the  lover, 
when  she  only  regrets  the  love. 

La  Rochefoucauld, 


Even    the    satyrs,   like    men,   in  on©  way  or 
another,  could  win  the  love  of  a  woman. 

Malcolm  Johnson, 


Yon  wish  to  create  Eve  over  again,  or  rather 
to  call  forth  a  female  Adam.     I  object. 

Sheldon. 


Let  a  man  pray  that  none  of  his  womau-kind 
Bhould  form  a  just  estimation  of  him. 

Thackeray, 


In  love,  she  who  gives  her  portrait  promises  the 
original.  Dupuy. 

The  man  who  seems  to  care  little  whether  he 
charms  or  attracts  women  is  he  who  offends  and 
seduces.  Goethe. 


To  correct  the  faults  of  man,  we  address  the 
head ;  tb  correct  those  of  woman,  we  address  the 
heart.  De  BeaiLchene. 


The  man  flaps  about  with  a  bunch  of  feathers  '. 
he  woman  goes  to  work  softly  with  &  cloth. 

Holmes. 


Glory  can  be  for  a  woman  but  the  brilliant 
mourning  of  happiness. 

Mm6,deStaeL 


Z^ 


Women  have  more  of  what  is    termed   good 

sense  than  men.     They  cannot  reason  wrong,  for 
they  do  not  reason  at  all.  Hazlitt, 


In  anger  against  a  rival,  all  women,  even 
duchesses,  employ  invective.  Then  they  make 
use  of  everything  as  a  weapon. 

Anonymous. 


What  is  civilisation?    I  answer,  the  power  of 
good  women.  Emerson. 


Science  seldom  renders  men  amiable;  women, 
never.  Beajuchi'ae. 


The  egotism  of  woman  is  always  for  two. 

Mme,  de  Stael. 


The  wiseat  woman  you  talk  with  is  ignorant  of 
something  that  you  know,  but  an  elegant  woman 
never  forgets  her  elegance.  Holmes. 


39 


A  widow  is  like  a  frigate   of  which  the  first 
captain  has  been  shipwrecked.  Karr, 


Where  women  are,  are  all  kinds  of  mischief. 

Mencmder, 


Woman  is  the  symbol  of  moral  and  physical 
beauty.  Oautier, 


No  man  knows  what  the  wife  of  his  bosom  is — 
no  man  knows  what  a  ministering  angel  she  is — 
until  he  has  gone  with  her  through  the  fiery  trials 
of  this  world.  Washington  Irving^ 


Women  have,  in  general,  but  one  object^  which 
is  their  beauty;  upon  which  scarce  any  flattery 
is  too  gross  for  them.  Chesterfield. 


If  Cleopatra's  nose  had  been  shorter,  the  face 
of  the  whd©  world  would  have  been  changed. 


A  worthless  girl  has  enslaved  me,— mp^  whom 
no  enemy  ever  did.  Epictetus, 


An  indigent  female,  the  object  probably  of  love 
and  tenderness  in  her  youth,  at  a  more  advanced 
age  a  withered  flower,  has  nothing  to  do  but 
retire  and  die.  Hall, 


In  love  affairs,   from  innocence  to  the  fault, 
there  is  but  a  kiss.  Alheric  Second, 


The    destiny   of   women    is   to    please,   to  be 
amiable,  and  to  be  loved.  Bochebrune, 


A  beautiful  woman  is  the  paradise  of  the  eyes, 
the  hell  of  the  soul,  and  the  purgatory  of  the 
purse.  Anonymous. 


If  you  would  make  a  pair  of  good  shoes,  take  for 
the  sole  the  tongue  of  a  woman ;  it  never  wears 
ovL  Alsaticm  Proverb* 


^Kaoman  anl)  tje  Wiit^ 


One  is  always  a  woman's  first  lover. 

De  Laclos. 


A  man  must  be  a  fool  who  does  not  succeed  in 

ers  her. 
Balzac. 


making  a  woman  believe  that  which  flatters  her, 


1  have  seen  faces  of  women  that  were  fair  to 
look  upon,  yet  one  could  see  that  the  icicles  were 
forming  round  these  women's  hearts. 

Solmes. 


The  highest  mark  of  esteem  a  woman  can  give 
a  man  is  to  ask  his  friendship,  and  the  most 
signal  proof  of  her  indifference  is  to  offer  him 
hers.  Anonynhous, 


The  fire  of  woman's   passion,   consuming    the 

wilderness  of  her  limitation,  rises  to  the  pure  flame 
that  has  blazed  on  every  altar  of  Eros  between 
the  Nile  and  the  Columbis.  Broume, 


Frailty  1  thy  name  is  woman, 

Shakespeami 


The  tears  of  a  young  widow  lose  their  bitterness; 
when  wiped  by  the  hands  of  love. 

Anonymotu, 

She  could  not  reconcile  the  anxieties  of  spiritual 
life,  involving  eternal  consequences,  with  a  keen 
interest  in  gimp  and  artificial  protrusions  of 
drapery.  George  Eliot. 


Yenns  herself  if  she  were  bald,  would  not  be 
Yenus.  Apuleius. 


Women  often  deceive   to   conceal   what  they 
feel ;  men  to  simulate  what  they  do  not  feel— love. 

Legouv^. 


Women  are  the  happiest  beings  of  the  creation ; 
in  compensation  for  our  services,  they  reward  us 
with  a  happiness  of  which  they  retain  more  than 
half.  De  Varennes. 


No  woman  is  too  silly  not  to  have  a  genius  for 
spitOi  ,         Anonymous, 


43 


Hl^oman  antr  tf)e  Wiit$i 

There  is  no  compensation  for  the  woman  who 
feels  that  the  chief  relation  of  her  life  has  been  a 
mistake.     She  has  lost  her  crown. 

George  Miot 


There  are  plenty  of  women  who  believe  women 
to  be  incapable  of  anything  but  to  cook,  incapable 
of  interest  in  affairs.  Emerson. 


A  woman  is  happy  and  attains  all  that  she 
desires  when  she  captivates  a  man;  hence  the 
great  object  <^  her  life  is  to  master  the  art  of 
captivating  men.  Tolstoi, 


The  secret  of  youthful  looks  in  an  aged  face  is 
easy  shoes,  easy  corsets  and  an  easy  conscience. 

Anonyimous. 


Who  does  not  know  the  bent  of  woman's  fancy  ? 

Spenser. 

Love  makes    mutes  of    those  who  habitually 
speak  most  fluently.  De  Saitderu 


WS^omm  mti  tfie  Wiit» 


Every  great  passion  is  bnt  a  prolonged  hop^ 

Feucheres, 


Beanty  in  woman  is  power. 

De  Botrou. 


We  are  by  no  means  aware  how  much  we  are 
influenced  by  our  passions. 

La  HochefoiicaiUd. 


To  love  is  to  admire  with  the  heart ;  to  admire 
is  to  love  with  the  mind.  Gautier, 


Glances  are  the  first  billets-doux  of  love, 

£>e  VEncloa. 


Beauty  and  ugliness  disappear  equally  under 
the  wrinkles  of  age ;  one  is  lost  in  them,  the  other 
hiddoiL  FeHt-tSenn. 


Where  pride  begins,  love  ends. 


Lavater, 


The  girl  who  wakes  the  poet's  sigh  is  a  very 
different  creature  from  the  girl  who  makes  his 
Boup.  Sheldont 


Women  know  a  point  more  than  the  deviL 

Italian  Proverb, 


To  a  gentleman  every  woman  is  a  lady  in  right 
of  her  sex.  Lytton, 


Bid  you  ever  hear  of  a  man's  growing  lean  by 
the  reading  of  '*Eomeo  and  Juliet,"  or  blowing 
his  brains  out  because  Desdemona  was  maligned  ! 

Holmes, 


Great  women   belong  to   history   and   to   self- 
saorifice.  Leigh  Runt, 


^4  Oman  mt  tljt  miitn 

The  heart  of  a  coquette  is  like  a  rose,  of  which 
the  lovers  pluck  the  leaves,  leaving  only  the 
thorns  for  the  husband.  Anonymous. 


In  our  age  women  commonly  preserve  the 
publication  of  their  good  offices  and  their  vehe- 
ment ajffection  toward  their  husbands  until  they 
have  lost  th^m.  Montaigne. 

When  women  cannot  be  revenged,  they  do  as 
children  do — they  then  cry,  Cardcm. 


At  twenty,  man  is  less  a  lover  of  woman  than 
of  women ;  he  is  more  in  love  witii  the  sex  than 
with  the  individual,  however  charming  she  may 
be.  La  JSretonne. 

The  man  who  has  taken  one  wife  deserves  a 
crown  of  patience;  the  man  who  has  taken  two 
deserves  two  crowns  of  pity.  Proverb. 


The   knowledge   of   the   charms    one   possesses 
prompts  one  to  utilise  them. 

SSno/neoiirt. 


There  is  no  more  agreeable  companion  than  the 
one  woman  who  loves  us.  St  Pierre, 


Jealousy  is  the  sister  of  love,  as  the  devil  is  the 
brother  of  the  angels.  Bovfflers. 


Men  bestow  compliments  only  on  women  who 
deserve  none,  Bachi, 


Twx>  smiles  that  approach  each  other  end  in  a 
kisa.  Hugo. 


There  is  in  every  true  woman's  heart  a  spark  of 

heavenly  fire,  which  beams  and  blazes  in  the  dark 

hours  of  adversity. 

WckshingtoTh  Irving. 


A  woman  is  never  displeased  if  we  please  several 
other  women,  provided  she  is  preferred.  It  is  so 
many  more  triumphs  ifx  her. 


There  is  a  woman  at  the  beginning  of  all  great 
things.  Lamm'tine. 


Women  prefer  ns  to  say  a  little  evil  of  them, 
rather  than  to  say  nothing  of  them  at  all. 

JRicard. 


One   syllable  of  woman's   speech  can  dissolve 
more  of  love  than  a  man's  heart  can  hold. 

Eolmea, 


Women,  deceived  by  men,  want  to  marry  them ; 
it  is  a  kind  of  revenge,  as  good  as  any  other. 

Beaumanoir. 


A  woman  is  seldom  tenderer  to  a   man  than 
immediately  after  she  has  deceived  him. 

Anonymous. 


Women  like  balls  and  assemblies,  as  a  hunter 
likes  a  place  where  game  abounds. 

De  Latency 


49 


Fortune  rules  in  nuptials ;  women  are  as  like  to 
turn  out  badly  as  to  prove  a  source  of  joy. 

Uu7'ipides. 


One  of  the  sweetest  pleasures  of  a  woman  is  to 
cause  regret.  Chevalier, 


Man  without  woman   is   head  without   body ; 
woman  without  man  is  body  without  head. 

German  Proverb. 


Wrinkles  disfigure  a  woman  less  than  ill-nature. 

DupuT^, 


I  am  sure  I  do  not  mean  it  an  injury  to  women 
when  I  say  there  is  a  sort  of  sex  in  souls. 

Steele. 


A  woman,  when  she  has  passed  forty  becomes 
an  illegible  scrawl ;  only  an  old  woman  is  capable 
of  divining  old  women.  Bijdzac. 


A  beautiful  woraan  is  never  silly ;  she  has  the 
best  wit  that  a  man  may  ask  of  a  woman,  she  is 
pretty.  StcM. 


All   the   reasons   of   men   are   not   worth   one 
sentiment  of  woman.  Voltaire. 


A  man  never  knows  how  to  live  until  a  woman 
has  lived  with  him.  Mere, 


It  may  not  be  impossible  to  find  a  constant 
heart  in  an  unfaithful  body.  StaM, 


Women  may  be  pardoned  for  lack  of  commor 
sense.     The  culprit  in  them  is  the  heart. 

StaM. 


The  history  of  love  would  be  the  history  of 
humanity ;  it  would  be  a  beautiful  book  to  write. 

Nodier. 


MEoman  antr  tU  SSatte 

Love  is  composed  of  so  raany  sensations,  that 
something  new  of  it  can  always  be  said. 

Saint  Prosper. 


A  woman  is  frank  when  she  is  not  uselessly 
untruthful.  France. 


Jealousy  for  a  woman  is  only  a  wound  to  self- 
respect.  In  man  it  is  a  torture  profound  as  moral 
suffering,  continuous  as  physical  suffering. 

France. 


Love  preserves  beauty,  and  the  flesh  of  woman 
is  fed  with  caresses  as  are  bees  with  flowers. 

France. 


Every  lover  who  tries  to  find  in  love  anything 
else  than  love  is  not  a  lover.  Bowrget. 


One  mast  be  sensual  to  be  hi 

Franoe, 


5« 


When  a  lover  gives,  he  demands — and  much 
more  than  he  has  given.  Farry. 


In  most  men  there  is  a  dead  poet  whom  the 
man  survives.  8t  Beuve. 


The  Egyptian  people,  wisest  then  of  nations, 
gave  to  their  Spirit  of  Wisdom  the  form  of  a 
woman ;  and  into  her  hand,  for  a  symbol,  the 
weaver's  shuttle.  Buskin. 


3i 

The  life  of  a  woman  can  be  divided  into  three 
epochs;  in  the  first  she  dreams  of  love,  in  the 
second  she  experiences  it,  in  the  third  she  regrets 
it,  Saint-Prosper. 


The  ruses  of  women  multiply  with  their  years. 

Proverb. 


Women  wish  to  be  loved,  not  because  they  are 
pretty  or  good  or  well-bred  or  graceful  or  intelli- 
gent, but  because  they  are  themselves. 

Amid. 


Society  depends  upon  women.     The  nations  who 
confine  them  are  unsociable.  Voltaire. 


A  beautiful  woman  with  the  qualities  of  a  noble 
man  is  the  most  perfect  tiling  in  nature. 

La  Bruyere. 

Woman,  in  accordance  with  her  unbroken, 
clear-seeing  nature,  loses  herself  and  what  she  has 
of  heart  and  happiness  in  the  object  she  loves. 

Eichter. 


Society  is  the  book  of  women. 


Women,  like  princes,  find  few  real  friends. 

Lyttleton. 

In  love  affairs,  a  young  shepherdess  is  a  better 
partner  than  an  old  queen.  De  Finod, 


To  "  Gret  out  of  my  house,"  and  "  What  do  you 
want  with  my  wife  ? "  there  is  no  answer, 

Don  Quixoie, 


M^man  antr  ti^e  Wiitsi 

Our  ice-eyed  brain  women  are  really  admirable 
if  we  only  ask  of  them  just  what  they  can  give, 
and  no  more.  Holmes. 


A  marriageable  girl  is  a  kind  of  merchandise 
that  can  be  negotiated  at  wholesale  only  on  con- 
dition that  no  one  takes  a  part  at  retail. 

Karr, 


Woman  is  a  flower  that  exhales  her  perfume 
only  in  the  shade.  De  Zaniennais. 


An  honest  woman  is  the  one  we  fear  to  com- 
promise. Balzac. 


A  woman,  the  more  curious  she  is  about  her 
face,  is  commonly  the  more  careless  about  her 
home.  Ben  Jonson. 


Heaven  has  refused  genius  to  woman,  in  order 
to  concentrate  all  the  fire  in  her  heart. 

Rivarol. 


The  two  pleasantest  days  of  a  woman  are  her 
marriage  day  and  the  day  of  her  funeral. 

Hipponcix, 


A  woman  who  writes  commits  two  sins;  she 
increases  the  number  of  books,  and  decreases  the 
number  of  women.  Ka/rr. 


A  lady's  wish — he  said,  with  a  certain  gallantry 
of  manner — makes  slaves  of  us  all. 

Holmes. 


In  nineteen  cases  out  of  twenty,  for  a  woman 
to  play  her  heart  in  the  game  of  love  is  to  play  at 
cards  with  a  sharper,  and  gold  coin  against 
counterfeit  pieces.  Bourget. 


Women  are  at  ease  in  perfidy,  as  are  serpents 
in  bushes.  FeuiUet. 


Women  see  without   looking;  their  husbands 
often  look  without  seeing.  Deanoyers, 


SHoman  antr  ^$  ^ISaits 

Most  women  who  ride  well  on  horseback  have 

little  tenderness.     Like   the  Amazons,  they  lack 
a  breast.  Anonymous, 


Earth  has  nothing  more  tender  than  a  woman' 
heart  when  it  is  the  abode  of  pity. 

Luther. 


In    wishing    to    control    her    empire,    woman 
destroys  itt  Canahis. 


Wherever  women  are   hononred,  the  gods  are 
satisfied.  Laws  of  Manu. 


To  a  woman,  the  romances  she  makes  are  more 
amusing  than  those  she  reads. 

Gautier. 


Women  give  themselves  to  God  when  the  devil 
wants  nothing  more  with  them. 

Sophie  Amovld. 


Sensualism  intrudes  into  the  education  of 
young  women,  and  withers  the  hope  and  affec- 
tion of  human  nature.  Emerson. 


All  the  reasoning   of  man  is   not   worth  one 
sentiment  of  woman.  Voltaire. 


When  an  old  crone  frolics,  she  flirts  with  death. 

Syrtis. 


There  never  was  in  any  age  such  a  wonder  to 
be  found  as  a  dumb  woman.  Plautus.  f 


Wives  are  young  men's  mistresses,  companions 
for  middle  age,  and  old  men's  nurses. 

Bacon. 


Tenderness  has  no  deeper  source  than  the  heart 
of  a  woman,  devotion  no  purer  shrine,  sacrifice 
no  more  saint-like  abnegation, 

SaUU-Foix. 


It  is  difficult  for  a  woman  to  keep  a  secret; 
and  I  know  more  than  one  man  who  is  a  woman. 

Lcifontaine. 

All  the  evil  that  women  have  done  to  us  comes 
from  us,  and  all  the  good  they  have  done  to  us 
comes  from  them.  Aimi  Martin. 


Have  a  useful  and  good  wife  in  the  house,  or 
don't  marry  at  alL  Ev/ripides. 


There  are  beautiful  flowers  that  are  scentless, 
and  beautiful  women  that  are  unlovable. 

Houelle. 


None  can  do  a  woman  worse  despite  than  to 

call  her  old.  Ariosto. 


He  who  flatters  women  most  pleases  them  best, 
and  they  are  most  in  love  with  hvm  whom  they 
think  is  most  in  love  with  them. 

Chesterfield. 


Suitors  of  a  wealthy  girl  seldom  seek  for  proof 
of  her  past  virtue.  Anonymcms. 


Imperious  Venus  is  less  potent  than  caressing 
Yenus.  Anonymous. 


The  clown  knows  very  well  that  the  women  are 
not  in  love  with  him,  but  with  Hamlet,  the  fellow 
in  the  black  cloak  and  plumed  hat. 

Holmes, 


Do  you  not  know    I  am  a  woman?      When 
I  think,  I  must  speak.  Shakespea/re. 


Women,  asses,  and  nuts  require  strong  hands. 

Italicm  Proverb, 


Woman  sends  forth  her  sympathies  on  adven- 
ture. She  embarks  her  whole  soul  in  the  traffic 
of  affection ;  and  if  shipwrecked,  her  case  is  hope- 
leas.  Washington  Irving, 


A  woman  is  sometimes  fugitive,  irrational,  in- 
determinable, illogical  and  contradictory.  A 
great  deal  of  forbearance  ought  to  be  shown 
her.  Amid. 


What  a  strange  illusion  it  is  to  suppose  that 
beauty  is  goodness !  A  beautiful  woman  utters 
absurdities :  we  listen,  and  we  hear  not  the 
absurdities  but  wise  thoughts.  Tolstoi, 


A  woman  cannot  guarantee  her  heart,  even 
though  her  husband  be  the  greatest  and  most 
perfect  of  men.  George  Sand. 


It  is  born  in  maidens  that  they  should  wish  to 
please  everything  that  has  eyes. 

Gleim. 

The  woman  who  throws  herself  at  a  man's  head 
will  soon  find  her  place  at  his  feet. 

Desnoyers. 

Women  and  wine,  game  and  deceit,  make  the 
wealth  small  and  the  wants  great. 

Proverb. 


I  confess  I  like  the  quality  ladies  better  than 
the  common  kind  even  of  literary  ones. 

Holmes. 


Women  sometimes  deceive  the  lover — never  the 
friend.  Mercier, 


You  see  in  no  place  of  conversation  the 
perfection  of  speech  so  much  as  in  accomplished 
women.  StetU. 


A  fan  is  indispensable  to  a  woman  who  can  no 
longer  blush.  Anonymous, 


When  a  wrong  idea  possesses  a  womaui,  much 
bitterness  flows  from  her  tongue. 

Ewrip%de9 


Marriap:e  communicates  to  women  the  vices  of 

men,  but  never  their  virtues, 

Fowrier, 


HHoman  mis  ti)e  Wiit» 

In  love,  the  confidant  of  a  woman's  sorrow  often 

becomes  the  consoler  of  it. 

Anonymous, 


A  royal  court  without  women  is  like  a  year 
without  spring,  a  spring  without  flowers. 

Francis  I.  of  Fra/nee, 


A  woman  full  of  faith  in  the  one  she  loves  is 
but  a  novelist's  fancy.  Balzac, 


O  Pygmalion,  who  can  wonder  (no  artist  surely) 
that  thou  didst  fall  in  love  with  the  work  of  thine 
own  hands.  Leigh  Sunt. 


The  mistakes  of  a  woman  result  almost  always 
from  her  faith  in  the  good  and  her  confidence  in 
*ihe  truth.  Baizae, 


Let  an  action  be  never  so  trivial  in  itself, 
women  always  make  it  appear  of  the  most  im- 
portance. Pop^ 


There  are  only  two  beautiful  things  in  the 
world — women  and  roses;  and  only  two  sweet 
things — women  and  melons. 

Malherhe. 


Before  promising  a  woman  to  love  only  her,  one 
should  have  seen  them  all,  or  should  see  only  her. 

Many   young    girls   have    a    strange   audacity 
blended  with  their  instinctive  delicacy. 

Holmes, 

Friendship  that  begins  between  a  man  and  a 
woman  will  soon  change  its  name. 

Anonymous. 


The  happiest  women,  like  the  happiest  nations, 
have  no  history.  George  Eliot, 


"Women  are  formed  by  nature  to  feel  some 
consolation  in  present  troubles,  by  having  them 
always  in  their  mouth  and  on  their  tongue. 

Ewripides* 


U 


Women  give  entirely  to  their  affections,  set 
their  whole  fortunes  on  the  die,  lose  themselves 
eagerly  in  the  glory  of  their  hnsbands  and 
children.  Emerson, 


We  ask  four  things  for  a  woman — that  virtue 
dwell  in  her  heart,  modesty  in  her  forehead, 
sweetness  in  her  mouth,  and  labour  in  her  hands. 

Chinese  Proverb. 


In  all  ill-matched  marriages,  the  fault  is  less 
the  woman's  than  the  man's,  as  the  choice 
lepended  on  her  the  least. 

Mme.  de  Eieux. 


Love    lessens    the    woman's     refinement     and 
strengthens  the  man's.  Bichter. 


Who  takes  an  eel  by  the  tail,  or  a  woman  at 
her  word,  soon  finds  he  holds  nothing. 

FroveHf, 


Homeliness  is  the  best  guardian  of  a  young  girl's 
\Irtae.  Mme,  de  Oerdia, 


In  condemning  the  vanity  of  women,  men  com- 
plain of  the  fire  they  themselves  have  kindled. 

Lingrde, 


A  prude  ought  to  be  condemned  to  meet  only 
indiscreet  lovers.  Raisson, 


Women  always  speak  the  truth,  but  not  the 
whole  truth.  Italiam.  Proverb, 


If  all  women's  faces  were  cast  in  the  same 
mould,  that  mould  would  be  the  grave  of  love. 

BichcU, 


What  colour  would  it  not  have  given  to  my 
thoughts,  and  what  thrice-washed  whiteness  to 
my  words,  had  I  been  fed  on  woman's  praises. 

ffolmes. 


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One  may  see  the  heart  of  women  through  the 
rents  which  one  may  make  in  their  self-love. 

Anonymous, 

"Women  and  music  should  never  be  dated. 

Goldsmith. 


Men  never  are  consoled  for  their  first  love,  nor 
women  for  their  last.  Weiss. 


A  timorous  woman  often  drops  into  her  grave 
before  she  is  done  deliberating. 

Addison. 


It  is  much  worse  to  irritate  an  old  woman  than 
a  dog.  Menander. 


There  are  women  so  hard  to  please  that  it  seems 
as  if  nothing  less  than  an  angel  will  suit  them  • 
hence  it  comes  that  they  often  meet  with  de\'ils. 
Mivrguerite  de  Vcdois, 


Woman  u  a  charming  creaturOi  who  dianges 
her  heart  as  easily  as  her  gloves. 

Balzac, 


Women  go  further  in  love  than  most  men,  but 
men  go  further  in  friendship  than  women. 

La  Bruyere, 


Woman's  function  is  a  guiding,  not  a  deter- 
mining one.  EiLskin^ 

At  first  woman  fosters  our  dearest  hopes  with 
the  affection  of  a  mother ;  then,  like  a  giddy  hen 
she  forsakes  the  nest.  Goethe, 


A  girl  of  sixteen  accepts  love;    a  woman  of 
thirty  incites  it,  BicardL 


A  woman  who  loves,  however  erring,  can  never 
be  entirely  selfish,  for  love  has  a  humanising 
influence,  and  a  true  passion  renders  any  self- 
8a<»ifice  easy.  Feabody, 


68 


WSlRtmm  antr  tjf  W^iUi 


A  secret  passion  defends  the  heart  of  a  woman 

better  than  her  moral  sense. 

De  La  Bretowne. 


Women's  hearts    are  made  of  stout  leather; 
there's  a  plagney  sight  of  wear  in  them. 

HdHbt^rton, 

A  woman  who  pretends  to  langh  at  love  is  like 
the  child  who  sings  at  night  when  he  is  afraid. 

Bousseau, 


"Woman  among  savages  is  a  beast  of  burden ;  in 
Asia  she  is  a  piece  of  furniture ;  in  Europe  she  is 
a  spoiled  child.  J)e  Meilhan, 


Women  that  are  least  bashful  are  not  infre- 
quently the  most  modest.  Cclton, 


True  feeling  is  a  rustic  vulgarity  the  flirt  does 
not  tolerate;  she  counts  its  healthiest  and  most 
honest  manifestation  all  sentiment. 

MitchdL 


Egaoman  au^  tfie  ^IMii^ 


Shakespeare  has  no  heroes,  he  has  only  heroines. 

Huskin, 


Some  men  are  different ;  all  women  are  alike. 

Delvau, 


The  empire  of  woman  is  an  empire  of  sweet- 
ness, skilfulness  and  attractiveness;  her  orders 
are  caresses,  her  evils  are  tears. 

Eousseau, 


Women  need  not  be  beantifnl  every  day  of  their 
lives;  it  is  sufficient  that  they  have  moments 
which  one  does  not  forget,  and  the  return  of  which 
one  expects.  Cherbuliez, 

There  are  some  lips  from  which  even  the 
proudest  women  love  to  hear  the  censure  which 
appears  to  disprove  indifference. 

Lf/tton, 

It  is  in  the  nature  of  the  feminine  sex  to  seek 
here  below  to  corrupt  men,  and  therefore  wise 
men  never  abandon  themselves  to  the  seductions 
of  women.  Latos  of  Manu, 


Would    that    the   race  of   women  had    never 
existed — except  for  me  alone  I 


Fools  that  on  women  trust ;  for  in  their  speech 
is  death,  hell  in  their  smile,  Tasao. 


At  the  age  of  sixty,  to  marry  a  beautiful  girl  of 
sixteen  is  to  imitate  those  ignorant  people  who 
buy  books  to  be  read  by  their  friends. 

Eiccvrd, 


Women  forgive  injuries,  but  never  forget  slights. 

HalihurUm, 


The  virtue  of  women  is  often  the  love  of  reputa- 
tion and  quiet.  Rochefoucauld. 


Woman  is  the  most  precious  jewp]  taten  from 
Nature's  casket  for  the  ornamentation  and  happi- 
ness of  maxL  Guyard, 


7« 


Women  have  such  a  wonderful  power  of  gecret- 
ing  adjectives  that  thej  cannot  speak  the  truth 
when  they  try.  Sheldon. 


Women  divine  that  they  are  loved  long  before 
it  is  told  them.  Marivaux, 


The  nervous  fluid  in  man  is  consumed  by  the 
brain,  in  woman  by  the  heart;  it  is  there  that 
they  are  most  sensitive.  Ba/yle, 


There  will  always  remain  something  to  be  said 
of  woman,  as  long  as  there  is  one  on  the  earth. 

De  Boujlers. 

The  virtue  of  widows  is  a  laborious  virtue ;  they 
have  to  combat  constantly  with  the  remembrance 
of  past  bliss.  Jerome. 

A  woman  whose  ruling  passion  is  not  vanity  is 
superior  to  any  man  of  equal  capacity. 

LaotUer, 


Woman's  natural  mission  is  to  love,  to  love  but 
one,  to  love  always.  Michelet. 


One  reason  why  women  are  forbidden  to  preach 
the  gospel  is  that  they  would  persuade  without 
argument  and  reprove  without  giving  offence. 

John  Newton. 


How  little  do  lovely  women  know  what  awful 
betags  they  are  in  the  eyes  of  inexperienced  youth. 

Washington  Irving. 


During  their  youth  women  wish  to  be  treated 
as  divinities ;  they  adore  the  ideal ;  they  cannot 
bear  the  idea  of  being  what  Nature  wishes  them 
to  be.  Anonymous. 


Love  is  a  bird  that  sings  in  the  heart  of  a 
woman.  Karr. 


"Woman's  happiness  is  in  obeying.     She  objects 
to  men  who  abdicate  too  much. 

Mkhdet. 


WBoraan  antr  tj^e  W&iit» 

Nature   sent  voman  into  the  world  with  the 
bridal  dower  of  love.  Michter. 


The  moral  amelioration  of  man  constitutes  the 
chief  mission  of  women.  Comte, 


Most  ladies  who  have  had  what  is  considered  as 
an  education,  have  no  idea  of  an  education  progres- 
sive through  life.  Foster, 


One  of  the  principal  occupations  of  men  is  to 
divine  women,  iMcretdle. 


Men  do  not  always  love  those  they  esteem  ; 
women,  on  the  contrary,  esteem  only  those  they 
love.  Dubai/. 


I  will  not  affirm  that  women  have  no  character ; 
rather,  they  have  a  new  one  every  day. 

ffeine. 


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?lHoman  anti  t^t  WBit» 

The  only  person  who  can  cure  one  of  a  woman 
is  that  woman  herself.  Anonymous. 


Yirtue  is  a  beautiful  thing  in  women  when  they 
don't  go  about  with  it  like  a  child  with  a  drum, 
making  all  sorts  of  noise  with  it. 

Jerrold, 


Wiles  and  deceits  are  woman's  specialities. 

^schylus. 

What  man  seeks  in  love  is  woman ;  what  woman 
seeks  in  love  is  man.  Houssaye. 


There  is  no  grace  that  is  taught  by  the  dancing- 
master,  no  style  adopted  into  the  etiquette  of 
courts,  but  was  first  the  whim  and  mere  action  of 
some  brilliant  woman.  Emerson, 


The  conversation  of  vomen  in  society  resembles 
the  straw  used  in  packing  china ;  it  is  nothing,  yet 
without  it,  everything  would  be  broken. 

Mme,  de  Salm. 


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The  woman  who  does  not  choose  to  love  should 

cut  the  matter  short  at  once  by  holding  out  no 

hope  to  her  suitor. 

Ma/rguerite  de  Valois. 


One  single  honest  man  may  yet  be  seen;  but 
vrander  all  the  world  round  to  find  one  honest 
woman,  he  will  search  in  vain. 

Wielcmd. 


A    woman    forgives    the   audacity  which  her 
beauty  has  prompted  us  to  be  guilty  of. 

Lesage, 

To  marry  a  wife,  if  we  regard  the  truth,  is  an 
evil,  but  it  is  a  necessary  evil, 

Mencmder. 


Nothing  is  more  difficult  to  choose  than  a  good 
husband — unless  it  be  to  choose  a  good  wife. 


The  rudest  man,  inspired  by  love,  is  more  per- 
suasive than  the  most  eloquent  man,  if  uninspired. 

La  Bochefoucavid, 


One  of  the  sweetest  pleasures  of  a  woman  is  to 
cause  regret.  Gavami. 


Constancy  is  the  chimera  of  love. 

Vauvenargues. 


The  pretension    of    youth   always   gives   to  a 
w^fflooan  a  few  more  years  than  she  really  has. 

Jouy. 


I  bave  only  one  advice  to  give  you — fall  in  love 
with  all  women.  Montma/rin. 


A  beautiful  face  is  the  most  beautiful  of  all 
spectacles.  La  Bruyere. 


The  sweetest  harmony  is  the  sound  of  the  voice 
of  the  woman  one  loves.  La  Bruyhre. 


To  many  is    to    domesticate  the    Recording 
Angel  t  JBL  L,  Stevenson, 


When  one  writes  of  woman  he  mast  reserve  the 
right  to  laugh  at  his  ideas  of  the  day  before. 


Who  hath  a  fair  wife  hath  need  of  more  than 
two  eyes.  Proverb, 


Men  bestow  compliments  only  on  women  who 
deserve  none.  Mme.  Bachi, 


Woman  is  more  the  companion  of  her  own 
thoughts  and  feelings,  and  if  they  are  turned  to 
ministers  of  sorrow,  where  shall  she  look  for 
consolation!  Washington  Irving, 


Vanity,  shame  and,  above  all,  temperament 
often  makes  the  valour  of  men  and  the  virtue  of 
women.  La  Rochefoucauld, 


Bachelors  are  providential  beings ;  God  created 
them  for  the  consolation  of  widows  and  the  hope 
of  maida.  2^0  Finod, 


Maoman  antr  tje  W!Rit$ 

As  the  faculty  of  writing  is  chiefly  a  mascaline 
endowment,  the  reproach  of  making  the  world 
miserable  has  been  always  thrown  upon  the 
women.  Johnson. 


We  look  at  one  little  woman's  face  we  love,  as 
we  look  at  the  face  of  our  mother  earth,  and  see 
all  sorts  of  answers  to  our  yearnings. 

George  Eliot. 


There  are  some  women  who  seem  cold  and 
beautiful  stones,  their  hearts  icicles,  their  tears 
frozen  gems  pressed  out  by  injured  pride. 

Alger. 


Position,  Wren  said,  is  essential  to  the  perfect- 
ing of  beauty — a  fine  building  is  lost  in  a  dark 
lane ;  a  statue  should  be  in  the  air ;  much  more 
true  is  it  of  woman.  Emerson. 


A  woman  should  never  accept  a  lover  without 

the  consent  of  her  heart,  nor  a  husband  without 

the  consent  of  her  judgment. 

/>«  Lendo9, 


Most  women  spend  their  lives  in  robbing  the 
old  tree  from  which  Eve  plucked  the  first  fruit. 

Feuillet. 


What  is  it  that  love  does  to  women  f    "Without 
it,  she  only  sleeps ;  with  it  alone,  she  lives. 

Ouida. 


Female  levity  is  no  less   fatal  to  them  after 
marriage  than  before.  Addison, 


The  highest  dressers,  the  highest  face-painters, 
are  not  the  loveliest  women,  but  such  as  have  lost 
their  loveliness,  or  never  had  any. 

Leigh  HwnL 


The  heart  of  a  woman  never  grows  old ;  when 
it  has  ceased  to  love  it  has  ceased  to  live. 

Eochepedre, 


Neither  in  adversity  nor  in  the  joys  of  prosperity 

let  me  be  associated  with  woman-kind, 

jEschylttg. 


Women  ask  if  a  man  is  discreet,  as  men  ask  if 
a  woman  is  pretty.  Anonymous, 


It  is  only  the  coward  who  reproaches  as  a 
dishonour  the  love  a  woman  has  cherished  for 
him.  Mme.  de  Lambert. 


There  is  scarcely  a  single  cause  in  which  a 
woman  is  not  engaged  in  some  way  fomenting  the 
suit.  Juvenal, 


Do  not  take  women  from  the  bedside  of  those 
who  suffer ;  it  is  their  post  of  honour. 

Mme.  Fie. 


It  is  lucky  for  the  poets  that  their  mistresses 
are  not  obliged  to  sit  to  them.  They  would  never 
write  a  line.  Leigh  Hunt. 


It  IS  easier  for  a  woman  to  defend  her  virtue 
rainst  man  than  her  reputation  against  women. 

Eochebrune, 


Si 


Twice  is  a  woman  dear — -when  she  comes  to  the 

house  and  when  she  leaves  it. 

Anoni/mous. 


A  woman  is  Kke  your  shadow ;  follow  her,  she 
dies ;  fly  from  her,  she  follows. 

Proverb, 


Woman  is  a  changeable  thing,  as  our  Yirgil 
informed  us  at  school;  but  her  change  par 
excellence  is  from  the  fairy  you  woo  to  the  brownie 
you  wed.  Lytton, 


How  many  ways  to  the  heart  has  a  woman  t 

Cha/nning, 


What  manly  eloquence  could  produce  such  an 
dffect  as  woman's  silence.  MicheleL 


When  maidens  sue,  men  live  like  goda. 

Proverb. 


8a 


I  think  it  takes  a  great  deal  from  a  woman':! 

modesty,  going  into  public  life;  and  modesty  is 

her  greatest  charm, 

Mrs  Ward  Beecher. 


The  passion  for  praise,  which  is  so  very 
vehement  in  the  fair  sex,  produces  excellent  effects 
in  women  of  sense.  Addison. 


With   women,    friendship   ends    when   rivalry 
begins.  ^  Anonymous. 

A  woman  is  easily  governed  if  a  man  takes  her 
hand.  La  Bruyere. 

The  lover  cannot  paint  his  maiden  to  his  fancy 
poor  and  solitary.  Emerson. 


The  man  who  can  govern  a  woman  can  govern 
a  nation.  Balzac. 


An  old  woman  is  a  very  bad  bride,  but   a 
very  good  wife.  Fielding, 


9\ 


Apelles  used  to  paint  a  good  housewife  on  a 
snail,  to  import  that  she  was  a  home-keeper. 

Man  argues  woman  may  not  be  trusted  too  far ; 
woman  feels  man  cannot  be  trusted  too  near. 

Brotone, 


Nature  has  hardly  formed  a  woman  ugly 
enough  to  be  insensible  to  flattery  upon  her 
person.  Chesterfield. 

God  has  placed  the  genius  of  women  in  their 
hearts,  because  the  works  of  this  genius  are 
always  worfes  of  love.  Lama/rtine. 


To  think  of  the  part  one  little  woman  can  play 
in  the  life  of  a  man,  so  that  to  renounce  her  may 
be  a  Tery  good  imitation  of  heroism,  and  to  win 
her  may  be  a  discipline  1  George  Eliot. 


The  truth  is,  women  are  lost  because  they  do 
not  deliberate.  Amelia  E,  Barr, 


When  Qod  thought  of  Mother^  he  must  have 

laughed  with  satisfaction,  and  framed  it  quickly, 

so  rich,  so  deep,  so  divine,  so  full  of  soul,  power 

and  beauty  was  the  conception. 

Ward  Beecher, 


A  woman  may  always  help  her  husband  by 
what  she  knows,  however  little  ]  by  what  she  half 
knows,  or  mis-knows,  she  will  only  tease  him. 

Ruskin. 

Diffuse  knowledge  generally  among  women,  and 

you  will  at  once  cure  the  conceit  which  knowledge 

occasions  while  it  is  rare.  «    ,        c    -^i 

Sydney  bmvth. 


The  love  of  woman  has  in  all  ages  given  birth 
in  man  to  passionate  desires,  poetic  dreams, 
deferential  attentions,  persuasive  forms  of  polite- 
ness. Alger. 

A  lady  who  had   not  learned  discretion    by 

experience  and  came  to  &n  evil  end. 

Holme$, 


In  the  elevated  order  of  ideas,  the  life  of  man 
is  glory ;  the  life  of  woman  is  love. 

Balzac, 


Women  have  more  strength  in  their  looks  than 

we  have  in  our  laws,  and  more  power  by  their 

tears  than  we  have  by  our  arguments. 

Sa/viUe, 


The  path  of  a  good  woman  is  indeed  strewn 

with  flowers ;  but  they  rise  behind  her  steps,  not 

before    them.     "  Her    feet    have    touched     the 

meadows  and  left  the  daisies  rosy." 

Buskin. 


The  masculine  personal  pronoun  is  singularly 
restricted  in  woman's  judgment.  Passion  has 
curtailed  her  grammar  amazingly.  She  can 
remember  only  one  number  (that  is  Greek). 

Broivne. 

There  is  nothing  sadder  than  to  look  at  dressy 
old  things,  who  have  reached  the  frozen  latitudes 
beyond  fifty,  and  who  persist  in  appearing  in  the 
airy  costume  of  the  tropics.  Sheldon. 


A  woman  finds  it  a  much  easier  task  to  do  an 
evil  than  a  virtuous  deed.  Plautus. 


I  have  always  said  it :  Nature  meant  to  make 
womckn  its  masterpiece.  Lesaing, 


2l2Eoman  an^  tit  WiiiB 


Woman  is  the  organ  of  the  deviL" 

De  Varennes. 


Women  are  a  breed  the  like  of  which  neither 
sea  nor  earth  produces  anything ;  he  who  is 
always  with  them  knows  them  best. 

JEuripides. 

Women  make  ns  lose  paradise,  but  how 
frequently  we  find  it  again  in  their  arms. 

J)e  Finod. 


Marriage  has  its  unknown  great  men  as  war 
has  its  Napoleons,  poetry  its  Cheniers,  and 
philosophy  its  Descartes.  Balzac. 


Vanity  ruins  more  women  than  love. 

Du  Deffand. 

Extremes  in  everything  is  a  characteristic  of 
woman.  De  Goncourt. 


One  loves  more  the  first  time,  better  the  second 

Mochepedre. 


87 


?12aximan  antr  t^t  5l2ait0 

Of  all  religions  love  is  the  most  deceptive. 

FcUeologue. 

The  Indian  axiom  "  Do  not  strike  even  with  a 
flower  a  woman  guilty  of  a  hundred  crimes"  is 
my  rule  of  conduct.  BcUzac, 


To  be  loved  as  in  books  is  a  dream. 

JBoti/rget, 


The  cruellest  revenge  of  a  woman  is  often  to 
remain  faithful  to  a  man.  £o88uet. 


Women,  cats  and  birds  are  the  creatures  that 
waste  most  time  on  their  toilets. 


Female    goodness     seldom    keeps    its    ground 
against  laughter,  flattery,  or  fashion. 

Johnson. 


I  received  money  with  her,  and  for  the  dowry 
have  sold  my  authority.  Plautus. 


88 


WS^amm  utOi  tit  WSl^tta 


There  is  no  torture  that  a  woman  would  not 

suffer  to  enhance  her  beauty. 

Montaigne. 


Most  women  proceed  like  the  flea,  by  leaps  and 
jumps.  Balzac. 

The  most  fascinating  women  are  those  that  can 
most  enrich  the  every-day  moments  of  existence. 

Leigh  Hvm4, 


Learn,  above  all,  how  to  manage  women ;  their 
thousand  "Ahs"  and  "Ohs,"  so  thousand  fold, 
can  be  cured.  Goethe, 


All  women  are  fond  of  minds  that  inhabit  fine 
bodies,  and  of  aouls  that  have  fine  eyes. 

Jouhert. 


When  women  love  us,  they  forgive  us  every- 
thing, even  our  crimes ;  when  they  do  not  love  us, 
they  give  us  credit  for  nothing,  not  even  for  our 
virtues.  Balzao, 


She  who  spat  in  my  face  while   I  was,  shall 
come  to  kiss  my  feet  when  I  am  no  more. 

Montaigne. 


Some  women  are  so  jnst  and  discerning  that 
they  never  see  an  opportunity  of  being  generous. 

Anonj/moiM. 


I  am  glad  I  am  not  a  man,  as  I  should  be 

obliged  to  marry  a  woman. 

Mme.  de  Stael. 


There  would  be  no  such  animals  as  prudes  or 
coquettes  in  the  world  were  there  not  such  an 
animal  as  man.  Addison. 


Women  have  tongues  of  craft  and  hearts  of 
guile.  Tasso, 


A  coquette  has  no  heart ;  she  has  only  vanity ; 
it  is  adorers  she  seeks,  not  love. 

Foinoelot, 


The  reputation  of  a  woman  may  be  compared  to 
a  mirror,  shining  and  bright,  but  liable  to  be 
sallied  by  every  breath  that  comes  near  it. 

Cervantes. 


Many  men  kill  themselves  for  love,  but  many 
more  women  die  of  it.  Lemontey, 


The  brain-woraen  never  interest  us  like  the 
heart-women ;  white  roses  please  less  than  red. 

Holmes, 

A  woman  is  seldom  roused  to  great  and 
caurageous  exertion,  but  when  something  most 
dear  to  her  is  in  immediate  danger. 

BaiUie. 

A  man  can  keep  another  person's  secret  better 
than  his  own;  a  woman,  on  the  ccntrary,  keeps 
her  secret  though  she  tells  all  others. 

La  Bruyhre, 

Men  speak  of  what  they  know;  women,  of 
what  pleases  them.  Boiisseom, 


A  woman  for  a  general,  and  the  soldiers  will  be 
womeii.  Latin  Proverb. 


Love  is  the  most  terrible,  and  also  the  most 
generous,  of  the  passions ;  it  is  the  only  one  which 
includes  in  its  dreams  the  happiness  of  someone 
else.  Karr, 


YiBTUB:  a  word  easy  to  pronounce,   difficult 
to  understand.  Voltaire, 


Marriage  should  combat  without  respite  or 
mercy  that  monster  that  devours  everything — 
habit.  Balzac. 


It  is  easy  to  find  a  lover  and  to  retain  a  friend ; 
what  is  difficult  is  to  find  the  friend  and  retain 
the  lover.  Levis. 


It's  better  to  love  to-day  than  to-morrow. 
pleasure  postponed  is  a  pleasure  lost. 

Eieard, 


^ 


Woman  conceals  only  what  she  does  not  know. 

Proverb, 


Love,  pleasure,  and  inconstancy  are  bat  the 
consequences  of  a  desire  to  know  the  truth. 

Dudos. 

A  coquette  is  one  that  is  never  to  be  persuaded 
out  of  the  passion  she  has  to  please,  nor  out  of  a 
good  opinion  of  her  own  beauty. 

Addison, 


The  vows  that  woman  makes  to  her  fond  lover 
are  only  fit  to  be  written  on  air  or  on  the  swiftly 
running  stream.  dxtulltbs. 


When  a  lady  walks  the  streets,  she  leaves  her 
^drtuous  indignation  countenance  at  home. 

Holmes. 


The  humour  of  affecting  a  superior  carriage 
generally  rises  from  a  false  notion  of  the  weak- 
ness of  the  female  understanding  in  general. 

Steele. 


93 


Woman  is  mistress  of  the  art  of  completely 
embittering  the  life  of  the  person  on  whom  she 
depends.  Ooethe. 


A  woman  submits  to  the  yoke  of  opinion,  but  a 
man  rebels.  De  Finod. 


The  only  thing  that  has  been  taught  successfully 
to  women  is  to  wear  becomingly  the  fig-leaf  they 
received  from  their  first  mother. 

Diderot. 


Woman  is  like  the  reed  that  bends  to  every 
breeze,  but  breaks  not  in  the  tempest. 

Whatdy, 


Women  are  happier  in  the  love  they  inspire 
than  in  that  which  they  feel ;  men  are  just  the 
contrary.  De  Beauchine, 


To  a  susceptible  youth,  like  myself,  brought  up 
in  the  country,  women  are  perfect  divinities. 

Washington  Irving, 


Women  should  be  careful  of  their  conduct,  for 
appearances  sometimes  injure  them  as  much  as 
faults.  Girard. 

Excess  of  passion  and  the  force  of  Ioto,— argu- 
ments than  which  there  can  be  none  more  power- 
ful to  assuage  the  irritation  of  a  woman's  mind. 

TitvA  Living. 


The  reason  why  so  few  women  are  touched  by 
friendship  is  that  they  find  it  dull  when  they  have 
experienced  love.  La  Eochefouca/uM. 


Where  women  are,  the  better  things  are  implied 
if  not  spoken.  Bronson  Alcoti. 


A  woman  is  a  well-served  table  that  one  sees 
with  different  eyes  before  and  after  the  meal.  s 

Anonymovs. 

The  materials  that  go  to  the  making  of  one 
woman  were  set  free  by  the  abstraction  from  in- 
animate nature  of  one  man's  worth  of  masculine 
constituents.  Holmes. 


Women  are  wise  impromptu,  fools  on  reflection. 

Italian  Proverb. 


To  say  the  tmth,  I  never  yet  knew  a  tolerable 

woman  to  be  fond  of  ber  own  sex. 

Stoift. 


"  I  like  women,"  said  a  clear-headed  man  of  the 

world,  "  they  are  so  finished."    They  finish  society, 

manners,  language.    Form  and  ceremony  are  their 

realm.     They  embellish  trifles. 

Smerson, 


An  opinion  formed  by  a  woman  is  inflexible ; 
the  fact  is  not  half  so  stubborn. 


There  is  one  thing  admirable  in  women ;  they 
never  reason  about  their  blameworthy  actions: 
even  in  their  dissimulation  there  is  an  element  of 
sincerity.  Balzac. 

A  mother  dreads  no  memories, — those  sbadows 
have  all  melted  away  in  the  dawn  of  Baby's  smiles. 

George  ElioL 


Nature  has  said  to  woman:  Be  fair  if  thou 
canst,  be  virtuous  if  thou  wilt;  but  considerate 
thou  must  be.  Beaumarchaia, 


A  woman  either  loves  or  hates ;  she  knows  no 
medium.  Syraa, 


The  error  of  certain  women  is  to  imagine  that, 
to  acquire  distinction,  they  must  imitate  the 
manners  of  men.  De  Maistre. 


Women's  virtue  is  the  music  of  stringed  instru- 
ments, which  sound  best  in  a  room. 

Bichter. 


With  women,  the  desire  to  bedeck  themselves  is 
always  the  desire  to  please. 

Mwrmontel, 


Tn  life,  as  in  a  promenade,  woman  must  lean  on 
a  man  above  her.  Ziorr. 


97 


Kindness  in  women,  not  their  beauteous  looksj 
shall  win  my  love.  Shakespea/re, 


The  revolution  the  Boston  boys  started  had  tc 
run  in  mother's  milk  before  it  ran  in  man's  blood. 

Holmes. 


Women  swallow  at  one  mouthful  the  lie  that 
flatters,  and  drink  drop  by  drop  the  truth  that  is 
bitter.  DideroL 


A  shameless  woman  is  the  worst  of  men. 

Young, 

There  has  been  no  church,  however  superstitious, 
that  has  not  been  adorned  by  many  Christian 
women  devoting  their  entire  lives  to  assuaging 
the  sufferings  of  men.  Lecky. 


I  dare  say  she's  like  the  rest  of  the  women, — 
thinks  two  and  two'U  come  to  make  five,  if  she 
cries  and  bothers  enough  about  it. 

George  MioU 


We  need  the  friendship  of  a  man  in  great  trials, 
of  a  woman  in  the  affairs  of  everyday  life. 

Tkomoi. 

How  can  one  who  hates  men  love  a  woman  with- 
out blushing  f  Eichter. 

Some  women  need  much  adorning,  as  some 
meat  needs  much  seasoning  to  incite  appetite. 

JSochebrune. 

*Tia  beauty  that  doth  make  woman  proud ; 

Tifl  virtue  that  doth  make  them  most  admired ; 

Tis  government  that  makes  them  seem  divine. 

Shakespeare, 

"Women  like  audacity ;  when  one  astounds  them, 
he  interests  them ;  and  when  one  interests  them, 
he  is  very  sure  to  please  them. 

AnonymouM, 

Women  should  despise  blander,  aoad  fear  to 
provoke  it  McUle,  de  ScttderL 


99 


Nature  is  in  earnest  when  she  makes  a  woman. 

ffohneB. 


HoweTW  virtuous  a  woman  may  be,  a  com- 
pliment on  her  virtue  is  what  gives  her  the  least 
pleasure.  Prince  de  Ligne, 


It  is  not  always  for  virtue's  sake  that  women 
are  virtuous.  La  Eochefoucavld, 


The  society  of  women  is  the  element  of  good 
manners.  Goethe, 


Woman  is  the  Sunday  of  man. 

Michdet, 


a  a  woman  has  any  malicious  mischief  to  do, 
her  memory  is  immortaL  PlcnUug, 


^IHoman  atiti  t^t  WBita 

When  women  have  passed  thirty,  the  first 
thing  they  forget  is  their  age;  when  they  have 
attained  the  age  of  forty,  they  have  entirely  lost 
the  remembrance  of  it.  J)e  Lencloi, 


Even  if  women    were    immortal,    they  could 
never  foresee  their  last  lover. 

J)e  Lamennais, 


It  has  been  justly  observed  that  heroines  are 
best  painted  in  general  terms. 

Leigh  Hunt, 

Love  is  superior  to  genius. 

De  Musset 

Time  sooner  or  later  vanquishes  love ;  friend- 
ship alone  subdues  time.  D'ArconvUle, 


A  beautiful  woman  with  the  qualities  of  a 
noble  man  is  the  most  perfect  thing  in  nature  j 
we  find  in  her  all  the  merits  of  both  sexes. 


IPI 


One  ia  alone  in  a  crowd  when  one  snffers,  or 
when  one  loves.  Rochepedre. 


All  the  passions  die  with  the  years;  self-love 
alone  never  dies.  Voltaire, 


A  short  absence  quickens  love,  a  long  absence 
kills  it.  Mirabeau, 


Marriage  often  unites  for  life  two  people  who 
scarcely  know  each  other.  BcUzae. 


If  a  woman  refrains  from  absurd  or  hateful 
words  and  acts,  and  if  she  is  beautiful,  we  are 
straightway  convinced  that  she  is  a  paragon  of 
wisdom  and  morality.  Tolstoi. 


If  we  men  require  more  perfection  from  women 
than  from  ourselves^  it  is  doing  them  honour. 


lot 


How  many  women  since  the  days  of  Echo  and 
Narcissus  have  pined  themselves  into  air  for 
the  love  of  men  who  were  in  love  only  with 
themselves.  Anna  Jameson, 


The  castle  that   parleys  and  the  woman  who 

listens  are  ready  to  surrender. 

Froverh. 


Strange  that  the  Gods  should  have  given  an 
antidote  against  the  venom  of  savage  serpents 
and  none  against  that  of  a  bad  woman. 

JEv/ripides. 

Women  dress  less  to  be  clothed  than  to  be 
adorned.  When  alone  before  their  mirror  they 
think  more  of  men  than  of  themselves. 

Rockebrune. 

The  woman  we  love  most  is  often  the  woman 

to  whom  we  express  it  the  least. 

De  Becmchine. 


Woman's  counsel  is  not   worth  much,  yet  he 
that  despises  it  is  no  wiser  than  he  should  be. 

Cervantes. 


I03 


Woman  is  the  nervous  part  of  humanity ;  msn 
the  muscular.  ffalle. 


O  woman,  woman!   thou  art  formed  to  bless 
the  heart  of  restless  man.  Bird, 


Women  are  often  ruined  by  their  sensitiveness 
and  saved  by  their  coquetry. 

McUle.  Azais. 


Women    are  compounds    of    plain-sewing  and 
make-believe — daughters  of  Sham  and  Hem. 

Sheldon, 


Finesse  has  been  given  to  woman  to  compensate 
the  force  of  man.  De  Laclos, 


Women  are   demons  who  make  us  enter  hell 
through  the  gates  of  paradise. 

Anonymoui, 


104 


It  is  to  teach  ns  early  how  to  think  and  ho^ 
to  excite  our  infantile  imagination,  that  pmdent 
nature  has  given  to  women  so  much  chit-chat. 

La  Bruyere. 

Oh,  woman !  woman !  thou  shouldst  have  a 
few  sins  of  thy  own  to  answer  for  !  Thou  art  the 
author  of  such  a  book  of  follies  in  man  ! 

Lytton. 

Woman's  dignity  lies  in  her  being  unknown; 
her  glory  iu  the  esteem  of  her  husband ;  and  her 
pleasure  in  the  welfare  of  her  family. 

RousseoM, 


Men  8ay  of  women  what  pleases  them ;  women 
do  with  men  what  pleases  them. 

Sdgur. 

Woman  must  not  belong  to  herself;    she  is 
bound  to  alien  destinies.  Schiller. 


Don't  trust  your  horse  in  the  field,  nor  your 
wife  in  your  home.  Russian  Proverb, 


los 


WBomm  anlr  tje  5IHite 

Woman  has  been  fed  upon  flattery  until  it  ii 
not  strange  she  hungers  for  substantial  diet,  whose 
best  sauce  is  understanding  and  appreciation. 

Bronme. 


One  thing  only  I  believe  in  a  woman — that  she 
will  not  come  to  life  again  after  she  is  dead. 

AnonymoiM, 

The  life  of  a  woman  is  a  long  dissimulation. 
Candour,  beauty,  freshness,  virginity,  modesty, — 
a  woman  has  each  of  these  but  once. 

La  JBretonne. 


Men   call   physicians    only  when    they  suffer; 
women  when  they  are  only  afflicted  with  ennui, 

Mme.  de  Gerdis, 


Men  say  more  evil  of  a  woman  than  they  think  j 
it  is  the  contrary  with  women  toward  men. 

Duhay. 

A  woman's   rank   lies   in   the    fulness   of  her 
womanhood;   therein  alone  she  is  royal. 

Q^orge  Miot, 


1€6 


WBoxam  antr  t^t  WLita 

The  deceit  of  priests  and  the  aanning  of  women 
durpass  all  else.  Bv/rger, 


Nothing  is  better  than  a  good  wife ;  and  nothing 
is  worse  than  a  bad  one,  who  is  fond  of  gadding 
aboutb  Eesiod. 


Woman  often  dies  for  love,  as  spotless  maidens 
have  died  to  live  forever  in  the  pantheon  o£ 
sentiment.  Browne, 


Love,  that  is  bnt  an  episode  in  the  life  of  man, 
is  the  entire  story  of  the  life  of  woman. 

Mme,  da  Stael, 


Women,  priests,  and  poultry  have  never  enough. 

Proverb, 


Woman  is  too  soft  to  hate  permanently ;  even 
if  a  hundred  men  have  been  a  grief  to  her,  she 
will  still  love  the  hundred  and  first. 


■07 


SSEoman  atiti  tfie  WiitB 

Intellect  is  to  a  woman's  nature  what  her  skirl 
is  to  her  dress.  EolmeB. 


Without  woman  man  would  be  rough,  rude, 
solitary,  and  would  ignore  all  the  graces,  which 
are  but  the  smiles  of  love. 

Chateavhrismd, 


No  woman  who  is  absolutely  and  entirely  good, 
in  the  ordinary  sense  of  the  word,  gets  a  man's 
most  fervent,  passionate  love. 

Mrs  W.  K,  Clifford, 


It  is  a  misfortune  for  a  woman  never  to  be 
loved,  but  it  is  a  humiliation  to  be  loved  no  more. 

Montesquisu. 

Woman  is  the  salvation  or  the  destruction  of 
the  family.  Amiel. 


An  old  coquette  has  all  the  defects  of  a  young 
one,  and  none  of  her  charmi,  Dupup^ 


xo8 


Women,  like  the  plants  in  the  woods,  derive 
their  softness  and  tenderness  from  the  shade. 

Zondor. 


One  should  choose  a  wife  with  the  ears  rather 
than  with  the  eyes.  Proverb. 


From  many  a  woman*s  fortune  this  truth  is 
clear  as  day;  that  falsely  smiling  pleasure  with 
pain  requites  us  ever.  Nibelungenlied. 


Half  the  sorrows  of  women  would  be  averted 
if  they  could  repress  the  speech  they  know  to  be 
useless, — nay,  the  speech  they  have  resolved  not 
to  utter.  George  Eliot. 

Men  know  that  women  are  an  over-match  for 
them,  and  therefore  choose  the  weakest  and  most 
ignorant.  Johnson. 


Woman's  sensibility  lights  up,  and  quivers  and 
falls,  like  the  flame  ol  a  coal  Are. 

MUchell. 


The  weakness  of  women  gives  to  some  men 
victorj^  that  their  merit  would  never  gain. 

Anoni/mou8, 


"Women     like     brave    men     exceedingly,    bat 
audacious  men  still  more.  Le  Mesle, 


The    mistake    of    many   women   is    to    return 
sentiment  for  gallantry.  Jout/. 


"Women  can  rarely  be  deceived,  for  they  are 
accustomed  to  deceive.  Aristophanes, 


There  are  no  pleasures  where  women  are  not. 

Marie  De  Bomieu, 


"Women's  tender  hearts  are  much  more  sus- 
ceptible of  good  impi'sssions  than  the  minds  of 
the  other  sex.  Steele, 


Coquettes   are  like    hunters  who  are  fond  of 
hunting,  but  do  not  eat  the  game. 

Anonymous. 


Marriage  with  a  good  woman  is  a  harbour  in 
the  tempest ;  but  with  a  bad  woman,  it  proves  a 
tempest  in  the  harbour.  Feiit-Serm. 


A  man  without  religion  is  to  be  pitied,  bnt 
godless  woman  is  a  horror  above  all  things. 

Elizabeth  Uva/ns, 


Cruellv  tempted,  perplexed  and  bewildered, 
when  passion  is  stronger  than  reason,  women  do 
not  think  of  consequences,  but  go  blindfolded, 
headlong  to  their  ruin,  Amelia  E,  Bourr, 


Yanity  acts  like  a  woman, — ^they  both  think 
they  lose  something  when  love  or  praise  is  accorded 
to  another.  Avionymov*, 

One  woman  reads  another's  character  without 
the  tedious  trouble  of  deciphering* 

BenJomMom, 


III 


Women  are  much  more  like  each  other  than 
men;  they  have,  in  truth,  but  two  passions, — 
vanity  and  love.  Chesterfield. 


A  jest  that  makes  a  virtuous  woman  only  smile, 
often  frightens  away  a  prude. 

De  LaUna, 

If  the  loving  closed  heart  of  a  good  woman  were 
to  open  before  a  man,  how  much  controlled  tender- 
ness, how  many  veiled  sacrifices  and  dumb  virtues 
would  he  see  I  Eichter, 


There  are  twenty-four  hours  in  a  day,  and  not  a 
moment  in  the  twenty-four  in  which  a  woman 
may  not  change  her  mind.  De  FinocL 


Most  women  are  better  out  of  their  houses  than 
in  them.  Tacittta, 


How  many  women  are  bom  too  finely  organ- 
ised in  sense  and  soul  for  the  highway ;  they  must 
walk  with  feet  unshod  1  ffolmes. 


IIS 


Women  are  rakes  by  nature   and  pmdes  by 
necessity.  Xa  Bochefoucwuld. 


What  means  did  the  devil  find  ont,  or  what 

instrument  did  his  own  subtlety  present  him,  as 
fittest  and  aptest  to  work  his  mischief  by  ?  Even 
the  unquiet  vanity  of  the  woman. 

Sir  Walter  Raleigh. 


An  obscure  mist  of  sighs  exhales  out  of  the 
solitude  of  women  in  the  nineteenth  century. 

Alger, 

If  a  woman's  young  and  pretty,  I  think  you 
can  see  her  good  looks  all  the  better  for  her  being 
plainly  dressed.  George  Eliot. 


A  man  is  in  general  better  pleased  when  he  has 
a  good  dinner  than  when  his  wife  talks  Greek. 

Johnson, 

A  young  girl  betrays,  in  a  moment,  that  her 
eyes  have  been  feeding  on  the  face  where  you  find 
them  fixed.  Holmes, 


III 


Life  is  not  long  enough  for  a  coquette  to  play 
all  her  tricks  in.  Addison. 


The  woman  who  loves  us  is  only  a  woman,  but 
the  woman  we  love  is  a  celestial  being,  whose 
defects  disappear  under  the  prism  through  which 
we  see  her.  Girardin. 


Woman's  love,  like  lichens  on  a  rock,  will  still 
grow  where  even  charity  can  find  no  soil  to 
nurture  itself.  Bov4e, 


If  a  fox  is  cunning,  a  woman  in  love  is  still 
more  so.  Proverb. 


There  are  few  husbands  whom  the  wife  cannot 
win  in  the  long  run  by  patience  and  love. 

Marguerite  de  VcUcia. 


A  woman  indeed  ventures  most,  for  she  hath 
no  sanctuary  to  retire  to  from  an  evil  husband. 

Jeremy  Taylor, 


114 


Better  to  have  never  loved,  than  to  have  loved 
unhappily,  or  to  have  Aa^  loved, 

Louise  CdeU 


Love  makes  time  pass,  and  time   makes  love 
pass.  Proverb. 


Love  is  the  passion  of  great  souls;  it  makes 
them  merit  glory,  when  it  does  not  turn  their 
heads.  De  Pompadour. 


Nothing  is  so  embarrassing  as  the  first  tite-drtStej 
when  there  is  everything  to  say,  unless  it  be  the 
last,  when  everything  has  been  said. 

JSoqu^lan. 


All  joys  do  not  cause  laughter ;  great  pleasures 
are  serious;  pleasures  of  love  do  not  make  m 
laugh.  Voltaire. 


The  beautiful  is  always  severe. 

S^ur. 


"S 


Love !  Love  !  Eternal  enigma !  Will  not  the 
Sphinx  that  guards  thee  find  an  .^dipas  to 
explain  thee  t  FycU, 


Friendship  between   two  women   is  always  a 
plot  against  each  other.  Karr. 


Divert  your  mistress  rather  than  sigh  for  her. 

Stede, 


The  ever-womanly  draws  us  above, 

Goethe. 


I  love  men,   not  because  they  are  men,  but 
because  they  are  not  women. 

Queen  Chrisiitia, 


Flow,  wine  1   smile,  women  1   and  the  universe 
is  consoled.  B&ranger. 


Ii6 


Discretion  is  more  necessary  to  women  than 
eloquence,  because  they  have  less  trouble  to 
speak  well  than  to  speak  little. 

Du  Boae, 


There  is    no    gown    or    garment    that  worse 
becomes  a  woman  than  when  she  will  be  wise. 

Luther. 


Women  live  only  in  the    emotion   that  love 
gives.  Eoussaye, 


On  great  occasions  it  is  almost  always  womeD 
who  have  given  the  strongest  proofs  of  virtue 
and  devotion.  Montholon^ 


God  bless  all  good  women  !     To  their  soft  hands 
and  pitying  hearts  we  must  all  come  at  last. 

Holmes. 


Neither    education    nor    reason    give^   women 
much  security  against  the  influence  of  example. 

Johnson. 


117 


21Homan  anli  tje  Matte 

The  hell  for  women  who  are  only  handsome  ii 
old  age.  SairU-JSvremond. 


Men  are  women's  playthings,  women   are  the 
devil's.  Victor  Hugo, 


A  woman,  if  she  is  bent   on   ill,   never  goes 

begging  to  the  gardener  for  material ;  she  has  a 
garden  at  home.  Plautus. 


The  woman  in  ns  still  prosecutes  a  deceit  like 
that  begun  in  the  garden ;  and  our  understand- 
ings are  wedded  to  an  Eve  as  fatal  as  the  mother 
of  their  miseries.  Glanvill. 


Among  all  animals,  from  man  to  the  dog,  the 
heart  of  a  mother  is  always  a  sublime  thing. 

Dumaa, 


There    are   no  ugly   women;    there  are    only 
women  who  do  not  know  how  to  look  pretty. 

Berryer, 


ii8 


?12anman  antu  tf)^  W^iU 

It  is  not  for  good  women  that  men  have  fonght 
battles,  given  their  lives,  and  staked  their  souls. 

Mrs  W,  K.  Clifford. 


Women's  sympathies  give  a  tone,  like  the  harp  s 

of  ^olus,  to  the  slightest  breath. 

Mitchell. 


A  coquette  is  a  woman  who  places  her  honour 
in  a  lottery ;  ninety-nine  chances  to  one  that  she 
will  lose  it.  Anonymous. 

The  honour  of  woman  is  badly  guarded  when  it 
is  guarded  by  keys  and  spies.  No  woman  is 
honest  who  does  not  wish  to  be. 

Dupwy. 

The  man  that  lays  his  hand  upon  a  woman,  save 
in  the  way  of  kindness,  is  a  wretch  whom  'twere 
gross  flattery  to  name  a  coward. 

Tohin. 


Beauty  deceives  women  in  making  them  estab- 
lish on  an  ephemeral  power  the  pretensions  of  a 
whole  life.  De  Bigincourt, 


"9 


fmomm  antK  t^t  WBitB 

I  do  not  know  that  she  was  "virtnous ;  but  sha 
was  ngly,  and  with  a  woman  that  is  half  the 
battle.  Heine, 


f 


Love  works  miracles  every  day;  snch  as 
weakening  the  strong  and  strengthening  the 
weak  ;  making  fools  of  the  wise,  and  wise  men  of 
fools;  favouring  the  passions,  destroying  reason, 
and,  in  a  word,  turning  everything  topsy-turvy. 

Ma/rguerite  de  Valois, 


In  love,  as  in  everything  else,  experience  is  a 
physician  who  never  comes  until  after  the  disorder 
is  cured.  De  la  Tow. 


Those  who  always  speak  well  of  women  do  not 

know  them  enough ;  those  who  always  speak  ill  of 

them  do  not  know  them  at  clL 

TigavXirLehrwn, 


"Were  we  perfectly  acquainted  with  our  idol,  we 
should  never  passionately  desire  it. 

La  Bochefoucatdd. 


no 


Love  is  like  the  moon;  when  it  does  not  in- 
crease, it  decreases,  Sdgwr. 


As  soon  as  women  are  ours,  we  are  no  longer 
theirs.  Montaigne. 


A  woman  laughs  when   she  can,   and  weeps 
when  she  wilL  Proverb. 


Woman  may  complain  to  God,  as  subjects  do  of 
tyrant  princes ;  but  otherwise  she  hath  no  appeal 
in  the  causes  of  unkindness. 

Jeremy  Taylor ^ 


A  bachelor  seeks  a  wife  to  avoid  solitude;  a 
married  man  seeks  society  to  avoid  a  tete-a-tete. 

Varennes. 


Silence    and    blushing  are    the    eloquence    of 

Chinese  Proverb. 


121 


A  woman  who  has  not  seen  her  lover  for  the 
whole  day  considers  that  day  lost  for  her;  the 
tenderest  of  men  consider  it  only  lost  for  love. 

Madame  de  Salm. 


A  woman  that  is  ill-treated  has  no  refuge  in 
her  griefs  but  in  silence  and  secrecy. 

Steele. 


There  are  only  two  good  women  in  the  world ; 
one  of  them  is  dead,  and  the  other  is  not  to  be 
found.  German  Proverb, 


The  most  beautiful  object  in  the  world,  it  will 
be  allowed,  is  a  beautiful  woman. 

Ma>cavZay. 

No  woman  can  be  handsome  by  the  force  of 
features  alone,  any  more  than  she  can  be  witty 
only  by  the  help  of  speech.  ffughes. 


Every  pretty  girl  one  sees  is  «  reminiscence  of 
the  Garden  of  'RdexL  Sheldon, 


122 


The  Marys  who  bring  ointment  for  our  feet  get 
but  little  thanks.  Thackeray. 


We  censure  the  inconstancy  of  women  when  we 
are  the  victims ;  we  find  it  charming  when  we  are 
the  objects,  Desnoyers. 


The  purer  the  golden  vessel  the  more  readily  is 
it  bent ;  the  higher  worth  of  women  is  sooner  lost 
than  that  of  men.  Richter. 


Nature  has  given  beauty  to  women  which  can 
resist  shields  and  spears.  She  who  is  beautiful  is 
stronger  than  iron  and  flame.  Anacreon. 


The  heart  of  true  womanhood  knows  where  its 
own  sphere  is,  and  never  seeks  to  stray  beyond  it. 

Hawthorne. 


Millions  of  people,  generations  of  slaves,  perish 
in  this  penal  servitude  of  the  factories  merely  in 
order  to  sacisty  the  whim  of  woman.  ^ 

Tolstoi. 


123 


\. 


mMmm  antr  tje  limits 

A  vroman  of  sense  onght  to  be  above  flattering 
any  man.  Holmes, 

The  reason  why  so  few  marriages  are  happy  is 
because  young  ladies  spend  their  time  making 
nets,  not  cages.  Anonymous. 


Woman  knows  that  the  better  she  obeys  the 
surer  she  is  to  rule.  MicheUt, 


I  have  found  that  there  is  an  intimate  con- 
nection between  the  character  of  women  and  the 
fancy  that  makes  them  choose  such  and  such 
material.  Prosper  MerimSe, 


"Woman  is  the  most  perfect  when  the  most 
womanly.  Gladstone. 


Woman  is  at  once  apple  and  serpent. 

Heine, 

124 


USEuman  antr  t^e  ^Mit» 

One  mnst  have  loved  a  woman  of  genias  in 
order  to  comprehend  what  happiness  there  is  in 
loving  a  fooL  TaUeyra/nd, 


The  most  reasonable  women  have  hours  whereii. 
to  be  unreasonable.  Cherhuliez. 


The  love  of  a  bad  woman  kills  others ;  the  love 
of  a  good  and  noble  woman  kills  herself. 

Oeorge  ScmoL 


Woman  is  born  for  love,  and  it  is  impossible 
to  turn  her  from  seeking  it.  Ossoli, 


Man  sometimes  asks  of  a  book  the  truth ;  a  I 
woman  always  her  illusions.  GoncowrU 


Societies  commence   with  polygamy  and  finish 
with  polyandry,  GonctywrL 


»S 


In  a  truly  loving  heart  either  jealonsy  kills  love 
or  love  kills  jealousy.  Bov/rgeU 


It  is  not  the  treachery  of  women,  but  our  own, 
which  makes  us  beware  of  them. 

BowrgeU 


The  world  either  breaks  or  hardens  the  heart 

Chamfort, 


A   mother's  tenderness   and  caresses    are  the 
milk  of  the  heart.  De  Guerin, 


Great  vices,  and  great  virtues,  are  exceptions  in 
mankind.  Sapoleon  L 


Most  women  caress  sin  before  embracing  peni- 
tence; DtbroU-FonUmeUe, 


126 


llSEoman  anb  t^$  ^ISEtts 

When  Eve  ate  the  apple  she  knew  she  was 
naked.  I  have  often  thought,  as  I  looked  at  her 
dancing  daughters,  that  another  bite  would  be  of 
servicie  to  them.  Sheldon. 


Woman  is  a   creature  between  man  and   the 
angels.  Balzac. 


Education  raises  many  poor  women  to  a  stage  of 
refinement  that  makes  them  suitable  companions 
for  men  of  a  higher  rank,  and  not  suitable  for 
those  of  their  own.  Lech/. 


Elegance  of  appearance,  ornaments,  and  dress, 
these  are  women's  badges  of  distinction ;  in  these 
they  delight  and  glory.  Titibs  Livius. 


Men  who  paint  sylphs,  fall  in  love  with  some 
bonne  et  hrave  femme,  heavy-heeled  and  freckled. 

George  Miot, 


^ 


M7. 


Woman — the  gods  be  thanked! — ^is  not  even 
collaterally  related  to  that  sentimental  abstraction 
called  an  angeL  Broume. 


There  will  always  remain  something  to  be  said 
of  woman,  as  long  as  there  is  one  on  the  earth. 

£ouffler8. 

There  are  no  oaths  that  make  so  many  per- 
jurers as  the  vows  of  love.  Eochebnme, 


The  heart  makes  of  woman  a  sublime  being, 
the  senses  in  their  brutality  make  of  her  a  true 
being.  Bourget. 


It  is  neither  honour  nor  love  which  makes  a 
betrayed  man  think  of  killing  a  woman.  Murder 
comes  of  the  senses.  Bov/rgeL 


Love  is  a  religion  and  its  cult  must  cost  more 
than  that  of  all  the  other  religions.         BourgeL 


I3i 


Of  an  ancient  love  one  may  make  eyerything, 
even  a  new  love — everything,  except  friendship, 

Bofurget. 

One  blushes  oftener  from  the  wounds  of  self* 
love  than  from  modesty.  Guih&ri. 


When  the  intoxication  of  love  has  passed,  we 
laugh  at  the  perfections  it  had  discovered. 

De  Lenclos. 


The  passions  are  the  orators  of  great  assemblies. 

Bivcvrol. 


Every  one  speaks  well  of  his  heart,  but  no  one 
dares  to  speak  well  of  his  mind. 

La  MochefouccsuM. 


There  are  people  who  are  almost  in  love,  almost 
famous,  and  almost  happy.  De  Krudener. 


129 


Women  are  an  aristocracy.  Michdet. 


Women  are  too  imaginative  and  sensitive  to 
have  much  logic  Mme,  du  Deffand, 


The  man  who  lives  in  indifference  is  one  who 
has  never  seen  the  woman  he  could  love. 


I  wish  Adam  had  died  with  all  his  ribs  in  his 
body.  Boucicault. 


One  mother  is  more  venerable  than  a  thousand 
fathers.  Laws  of  Mam/a. 


Tell  a  woman  that  she  is  beautiful,  and  the 
devil  wiU  repeat  it  to  tier  ten  times. 

Italicm  Proverb, 


130 


SDSEoman  anty  t^e  Wiit^ 


A  woman  is  most  merciless  when  shame  goads 
on  her  hate.  Juvenal, 


Qod  made  her  small  in  order  to  do  a  more 
choice  bit  of  workmanship.  De  Muaset. 


The  venom  of  the  female  viper  is  more  poison- 
ous than  that  of  the  male  viper.  Butler, 


Friendships  of   women    are    cushions   wherein 
they  stick  their  pins.  Anonymous, 


Women  rouge  that  they  may  not  blush.  ^ 

Italicm  Proverb, 


A   woman    in   love   is    a  very  poor  judge  of 
character.  HoQantL 


131 


There  was  never  yet  fair  woman  but  she  made 
mouths  in  a  glass.  Shakespeare, 


A  woman's  whole  life  is  the  history  of  the 
affections.  The  heart  is  her  world;  it  is  there 
her  ambition  strives  for  empire. 

Washington  Irving. 


Women  never  lie  more  astutely  than  when 
they  tell  the  truth  to  those  who  do  not  believe 
them.  Anonymous. 


A  woman's  friendship  borders  more  closely  on 
love  than  man's.  Coleridge. 


Women  never  weep  more  bitterly  than  when 
they  weep  with  spite.  Eicard. 


To  love  her  is  a  liberal  education. 

Congreve. 


13a 


It  is  to  woman  that  the  heart  appeals  when  it 
needs  consolation.  Demoustier. 


Irregular  vivacity  of  temper  leads  astray  the 
hearts  of  ordinary  women  in  the  choice  of  their 
lovers  and  the  treatment  of  their  husbands. 

Addison. 


A  woman  without  beauty  knows  but  half  of 
life,  Mme,  de  Monta/rcm. 


The  only  confidence  that  one  can  repose  in  the 
most  discreet  woman  is  the  confidence  of  her 
beauty.  Le  Mesle. 

A  knot  of  ladies  got  together  by  themselves  is  a 
very  school  of  impertinence  and  detraction,  and  it 
is  well  if  those  be  the  worst.  Stmft. 


Never  say  man,  but  men;  nor  women,  but 
woman;  for  the  world  has  thousands  of  men 
and  only  one  woman.  Weisa. 


133 


But  one  thing  on  earth  is  better  than  the  wife 
-that  is  the  mother.  Sehe/er, 


A  virtuous  woman  has  in  the  heart  a  fibre  less 
or  a  fibre  more  than  other  women ;  she  is  stupid  or 
sublime.  Balzac. 


In  every  loving  woman  there  is  a  priestess  of 
the  past.  Amid, 


All  women  are  good — good  for  nothing,  or  good 
for  something,  Cerva/ntes. 


Women  are  a  new  race,  re-created  since  the 
world  received  Christianity. 

Henry  Wa/rd  Beecher, 


Beauty,  in  a  modest  woman,  is  like  fire  or  a 
sharp  sword  ,at  a  distance:  neither  doth  the 
one  bum  nor  the  other  wound  those  that  come 
not  too  near  them.  Cervantes, 


134 


What  woman  desires  is  written  in  heaven. 

La  Ghau89ie. 


"Woman  is  the  highest,  holiest,  most  precious 
gift  to  man.  Her  mission  and  throne  is  the 
family.  Todd. 


Of  all  heavy  bodies,  the  heaviest  is  the  woman 
we  have  ceased  to  love.  Lemontey. 


If  a  wife  can  indnce  herself  to  submit  patiently 
to  her  husband's  mode  of  life,  she  will  have  no 
difficulty  to  manage  him.  Airistotle. 


Men  would  be  saints  if  they  loved  God  as  they 
love  women.  St  Thomas. 


Than  woman  there  is  no  fouler  and  viler  fiend 
when  her  mind  is  bent  on  ill.  Homer, 


I3S 


A  woman  forgives  everything  but  the  fact  that 
you  do  not  covet  her.  De  Mvsset. 


The  desire  to  please  ia  bom  in  women  before 
the  desire  to  love.  J>e  Lendos. 


Of  all  things  that  man  possesses,  women  alone 
take  pleasure  in  being  possessed. 

Malherhe. 


"Women  and  young  men  are  apt  to  tell  what 
secrets  they  know  from  the  vanity  of  having 
been  trusted.  Chesterfield. 


Women  are  like  pictures;  of  no  value  in  the 
hands  of  a  fool,  till  he  hears  men  of  sense  bid 
high  for  the  purchase.  Fa/rquhar. 


The  best  woman  is  the  one  least  talked  about 

Schilier. 


X36 


In  this  advanoed  century  a  girl  of  sixteen 
knows  as  much  as  her  mother,  and  enjoys  her 
knowledge  much  more«  Anonymotu. 


In  love,  a  woman  is  like  a  lyre  that  surrenders 
its  secrets  only  to  the  hand  that  knows  how  to 
touch  its  strings.  Balzac. 


Men  say  knowledge  is  power;   women  think 
dress  is  power.  Sheldon. 


She  18  the  most  virtuous  woman  whom  Nature 
has  made  the  most  voluptuous,  and  reason  the 
coldest.  La  Beaumelle. 


For  one  woman  who  afifronts  her  kind  by 
wicked  passions  or  remorseless  hate,  a  thousand 
make  amends  in  age  and  youth. 

Machay. 


«I7 


It  is  often  woman  who  inspires  ns  with  the 
great  things  that  she  will  prevent  us  from 
accomplishing.  Dumaa, 


A  man  who  is  known  to  have  broken  many 

hearts  is  naturally  invested  with  a  tantalising 
charm  to  women  who  have  yet  hearts  to  be 
broken.  Boyesen. 

Between  a  woman's  "  yes  "  and  "  no "  I  would 
not  venture  to  stick  a  pin. 

Cervantes, 

A  woman's  love  is  often  a  misfortune;  her 
friendship  is  always  a  boon. 

M^ziires, 

A  woman's  head  is  always  influenced  by  her 
heart,  but  a  man's  heart  is  always  influenced 
by  his  head.  Blessington. 

Women  love  always;  when  earth  slips  away 
from  them  they  take  refuge  in  heaven. 

Anonymoue, 


t* 


The  finger  of  the  first  woman  loved  is  like  that 
of  God  :  the  imprint  of  it  is  eternal. 

Anonymous. 


Most  women  prefer  that  we  shonld  talk  ill  of 
their  virtue  rather  than  of  their  wit  or  of  their 
beanty.  Fontenelle. 


In  buying  horses  and  in  taking  a  wife,  shut 
your  eyes  tight  and  commend  yourself  to  God. 

Tv^ccm  Proverb. 


All  women  desire  to  be  esteemed;   they  care 
much  less  about  being  respected. 

Dumaa. 


Women   are  women  but  to  become  mothers : 
they  go  to  duty  through  pleasure. 

Joubert. 


Coquetry  is  a  net  laid  by  the  vanity  of  women 
to  ensnare  that  of  man.  Bruin. 


119 


To  a  woman  of  delicate  feeling,  the  most  per- 
suasive declaration  of  love  is  the  embarrassment 
of  an  intellectual  man.  De  Latena. 


A  coquette  is  to  a  man  what  a  toy  is  to  a  child  j 
as  long  as  it  pleases  him  he  keeps  it. 

Anonymous. 


When  A  woman  once  begins  to  be  ashamed  of 
what  she  ought  not  to  be  ashamed  of,  she  will  not 
be  ashamed  of  what  she  ought. 

Titus  Livius. 


Friend,  beware  of  fair  maidens!    When  their 
tenderness  begins,  our  servitude  is  near. 

Victor  Hugo, 


That  perfect  disinterestedness  and  self-devotion 
of  which  man  seems  incapable,  but  which  is  some- 
times found  in  women.  MacavZay, 


i#o 


A  pretty  woman's  worth  some  pains  to  see. 

Brotoning. 


If  you  wish  a  coquette  to  regard  you,  cease  to 
regard  her.  Anonymous. 


Women  of  forty  always  fancy  they  have  found 
the  Fountain  of  Youth,  and  that  they  remain 
young  in  the  midst  of  the  ruins  of  their  day. 


The  perfect  loveliness  of  a  woman's  countenance 
can  only  consist  in  that  majestic  peace  which  is 
founded  in  the  memory  of  happy  and  useful  years, 
full  of  sweet  rec-ords.  Bvskin. 


Trust  your  dog  to  the  end ;  a  woman — till  the 
first  opportunity.  Proverb. 


In  mythology  no  god  falls  in  love  with  Minerva. 
A  mannish  woman  only  attracts  a  feminine  man. 

Sheldon. 


W!Rt>mm  antr  tf)t  ^Mit^ 

Women  have  the  same  desires  as  men,  but  do 
not  haye  the  same  right  to  express  them. 

Eovsseau. 


Youth  feeds  on  its  own  flowery  pastures;  in 
pleasures  it  builds  up  a  life  that  knows  no  trouble 
till  the  name  of  virgin  is  lost  in  that  of  wife. 

Sophocles. 


The  world  is  so  unjust  that  a  female  heart 
which  has  once  been  touched  is  thought  for  ever 
blemished.  Steele, 


Nature  and  custom  would,  no  doubt,  agree  in 
conceding  to  all  males  the  right  of  at  least  two 
distinct  looks  at  every  comely  female  countenance. 

Holmes. 


We  love  handsome  women  from  inclination, 
homely  women  from  interest,  and  virtuous  women 
from  reason.  Eoussaye. 


i4« 


There  is  something  still  more  to  be  studied  than 
a  Jesuit,  and  that  is  a  Jesuitess. 

Eugene  Sue, 

Uneducated  men   may  escape  intellectual  de- 
gradation; uneducated  women  cannot. 

Sydney  Smith. 

A  woman  and  her  servant,  acting  in  accord, 
would  outwit  a  dozen  devils.  Proverb. 


Cast  in  so  slight  and  exquisite  a  mould,  so  mild 
and  gentle,  so  pure  and  beautiful,  that  earth 
seemed  not  her  element,  nor  its  rough  creatures 
her  lit  companions.  Dickens. 


The  wife  is  a  constellation  of  virtues  ;  she's  the 
moon,  and  thou  art  the  man  in  the  moon. 

Congreve. 

Scylla  must  have  broken  off  many  excellent 
matches  in  her  time,  if  she  insiste<l  upon  all  that 
loved  her  loving  her  dogs  also.  Lamb, 


143 


A  light  wife  doth  make  a  heavy  husband. 

Shakespea/re, 


Trust  a  poor  woman  to  dress  her  children  in 
finery.  Mitchell, 


A  woman  is  turned  into  a  love-magnet  by  a 
tingling  current  of  life  running  around  her. 

Holmes. 


Women  smd  maidens  must  be  praised,  whether 
truly  or  falsely.  Oerman  Proverb. 


The  supreme  beauty  of  Greek  art  is  rather  male 
than  female.  Winckelmcmn, 


The  man  is  the  head  of  thd  woman,  but  she 
rules  him  by  her  temper. 

Bussia/n  Proverb. 


Women  are  in  general  more  addicted  to  the 
petty  forms  of  vanity,  jealousy,  spitefulness,  and 
ambition,  and  they  are  also  inferior  to  men  in 
active  courage.  Lecky, 


Certain    importunities    always   please   women, 
even  when  the  importuner  does  not  please. 

Anonymous. 


It  is  difficult  for  a  woman  ever  to  try  to  be  any- 
thing good  when  she  is  not  beheved  in, — when  it 
is  always  supposed  that  she  must  be  contemptible. 

George  Eliot. 


Woman's  beauty,  the  forest's  echo,  and  rainbowp 
soon  pass  away.  Germcm  Proverb. 


The  starry  crown  of  woman  is  in  the  power  of 
her  affection  and  sentiment  and  the  infinite  en- 
largements to  which  they  lead. 

Emerson. 


I4S 


^imoman  anlJ  tje  512att0 

However  much  woman  may  need  deliverance 
from  some  outward  trials  and  disabilities,  her 
grand  want  is  a  freer,  deeper,  richer,  holier  inward 
life.  Alger. 


He  that  hath  a  fair  wife  never  wants  trouble. 

Proverb. 


The  man  who  awakes  the  wondering,  trembling 
passion  of  a  young  girl  always  thinks  her  affec- 
tionate. George  ElioU 


A  woman,  unlike  Narcissus,  seeks  not  her  own 
image  and  a  second  I ;  she  much  prefers  a  not  I. 

Bichter. 

Woman  is  seldom  merciful  to  the  man  who  Is 
timid.  Lytton, 


A  wife!  ft  mother!  two  magical  words,  com- 
prising the  sweetest  source  of  man's  felicity. 
Theirs  is  the  reign  of  beauty,  of  love,  of  reason, — 
always  a  reign.  Aimi  Maa^in, 


146 


Woman  is  the  dwelling-place  of  religion,  and 
communicates  it  to  the  young. 

Cfumning, 

The  first  and  chief  thing  that  should  be  looked 
for  in  a  woman  is  fear.  Tolstoi. 


A  woman  fascinates  a  man  qnite  as  often  by 

what  she  overlooks  as  by  what  she  sees. 

Rolmes. 


"Women  have  no  fear  of  marriage,  because  they 
are  so  occupied  in  imagining  the  happiness  it  may 
bring  them  that  they  never  think  of  the  possible 
misery  it  includes.  Anonymous. 


Devotion  is  the  last  love  of  women. 

Scnnt-Evremond. 


A  woman   with  whom  one   discusses  love  is 
always  in  expectation  of  something, 

Poincdot. 


147 


WLtman  anil  t^t  WSiiiB 

TSie  beauty  of  some  women  has  days  and 
seasons,  and  depends  upon  accidents  which 
diminish  or  increase  itw  Cervcmtea. 


We  meet  in   society  many  attractive  women 
whom  we  would  fear  to  make  our  wives. 

D^Ha/rlevUle. 


The  woman  who  plays  with  the  love  of  a  loyal 
man  is  a  curse ;  she  may  close  his  heart  for  ever 
against  all  confidence  in  her  sex. 

Anonymous. 


It  is  the  male  that  gives  charm  to  womankind, 
that  produces  an  air  in  their  faces,  a  grace  in 
their  motions,  a  softness  in  their  voices,  and  a 
delicacy  in  their  complexions.  Addison. 


In  life,  woman  must  wait  until  she  is  asked  to 
love,  as  in  a  salon  she  waits  for  an  invitation  to 
dance.  Ka/iTs 


MS 


A  sharp  eye  can  almost  always  see  the  train 
leading  from  a  young  girl's  eye  or  lip  to  the  "I 
love  you  "  in  her  heart.  ffolmeSo 


Women,  wind,  and  fortune  soon  changa 

Spcmish  Proverb. 


A  woman  without  a  laugh  in  her  ...  is  the 
greatest  bore  in  nature.  Thackeray. 


To  women,  mildness  is  the  best  means  to  be 
right.  Mme,  de  Fontaines. 


Women  bestow  on  friendship  only  what  they 
borrow  from  love.  Chamfort. 


The  best  shelter  for  a  girl  is  her  mother's  wing. 

Anonymoug. 


14^ 


Whoever,  allured  by  riches  or  high  rank,  marries 
a  vicious  woman  is  a  fool.  Ewripides. 


For  a  woman  to  be  at  once  a  coquette  and  a 
bigot  is  more  than  the  meekest  of  husbands  can 
bear.  La  Bruyere. 


A  wretched  woman  is  more  unfortunate  than  a 
wretched  man.  Victor  Hugo, 


A  good  woman  is  a  hidden  treasure ;  who  dis- 
covers her  will  do  well  not  to  boast  about  it. 

La  Eoche/oucaiUd, 


Women  are  twice  as  religious  as  men ;  all  the 
world  knows  that.  Holmes, 


The  most  dreadful  thing  against  women  is  the 
character  of  the  men  who  praise  them. 

Anonymotu, 


ISO 


A  woman  is  naturally  as  mnch  more  capricious 
than  a  man  as  she  is  more  susceptible.  A  slighter 
shock  suffices  to  jostle  her  delicate  emotions  out 
of  delight  into  disgust.  Alger. 


Love  thy  wife  as  thy  soul;   shake  her   as  a 
plum-tree.  Russian  Proverb. 


Love  is  of  all  the  passions  the  strongest,  for  it 
attacks  simultaneously  the  head,  the  heart,  and 
the  seoBes.  Voltaire. 


Time  is  the  sovereign  physician  of  all  passions. 

Montaigne. 


Obstacles  usually  stimulate  passion,  but  some- 
times they  kill  it.  Sa/nd. 


Folly  was  condemned  to  serve  as  a  guide  to  Lovp 
whom  she  had  blinded.  La  Fontaine. 


151 


The  future  of  society  is  in  the  hands  of  the 
mothers.  If  the  world  was  lost  through  woman, 
she  alone  can  save  it.  De  Beaufort. 


The  breaking  of  a  heart  leaves  no  traces, 

Scmd. 


From  the  moment  it  is  touched,  the  heart  can- 
not dry  up.  Bourdaloue. 


'Tis  the   greatest  misfortune  in  nature  for  a 
woman  to  want  a  confidant.  Farquha/r, 


How  many  women  would  laugh  at  the  funerals 
of  their  husbands  if  it  were  not  the  custom  to 
weep.  Anonymoius. 

Venus  with  ease  engenders  wiles  in  knowing 
dames ;  but  a  woman  of  simple  capacity,  by  reason 
of  her  small  understanding,  is  removed  from  folly. 

Ev/ripidi8. 


Il« 


Modesty  in  women  has  great  advantages;  it 
Buhances  beauty,  and  serves  as  a  veil  to  uncomeK- 
ness.  FonteneUe. 


Of  all  wild  beasts,  on  earth  or  in  the  sea,  the 
greatest  is  a  woman.  Anonymous* 


One  must  tell  women  only  what  one  wants  to 
be  known.  Beauma/rchais. 


Speak  to  women  in  a  style  and  manner  proper 
to  approach  them,  they  never  fail  to  improve  by 
your  counsels.  Steele, 


A  woman  without  religion  is  even  worse,  a 
flame  without  heat,  a  rainbow  without  colour,  a 
flower  without  perfume.  Mitchell. 


A  woman    once    fallen   will    shrink  from  no 
impropriety.  Tacitus, 


«5S 


I  don't  want  a  woman  to  weigh  me  in  a 
balance;  there  are  men  enough  for  that  sort  of 
work.  Holmes. 


Women  soften  onr  character,  and  yet  make  us 
heroic.  The  same  traits  of  character  produce 
these  different  effects.  Channing. 


Women,  like  empresses,  condemn  to  imprison- 
ment and  hard  labour  nine-tenths  of  mankind. 

ToUtoi, 


There  is  one  dangerous  science  for  women,  one 
which  let  them  indeed  beware  how  they  profanely 
touch ;  that  of  theology.  Bv^kin. 


A  woman's  fame  is  the  tomb  of  her  happiness. 

Proverb. 


There  will  be  so  many  more  women  in  heaven 
than  men  that  any  marriage,  except  of  the 
Mormon  kind,  would  be  impossible. 

Sheldon. 


IS4 


Coquette — a  female  general  who   builds  her 
fame  on  her  adrances.  Field, 


When,  like  spoiled  children,  women  cry  for  the 
moon,  it  is  because  they  have  heard  that  the  moon 
contains  a  man.  Brovme, 


Women  famed  for  their  valonr,  their  skill  in 

politics,  or  their  learning,  leave  the  duties  of  their 
own  sex  in  order  to  invade  the  privileges  of  ours. 

Goldamith. 


Woman  is  fine  for  her  own  satisfaction  alone ; 
man  only  knows  man's  insensibility  to  a  new 
gown.  Jcme  Austen. 

Women  in  this  degenerate  age  are  rare,  to 
whom  aught  else  but  sordid  gain  is  dear. 

Ariosto. 


Woman,   divorced    from    home,    wanders    un- 
friended like  a  waif  upon  the  waves. 

Goethe, 


155 


Women  are  right  to  crave  beauty  at  any  price, 
since  beauty  is  the  only  merit  that  men  do  not 
contest  with  them,  Dupuy. 


Your  true  flirt  plays  with  sparkles ;  her  heart, 
much  as  there  is  of  it,  spends  itself  in  sparkles ; 
she  measures  it  to  sparkle,  and  habit  grows  into 
nature.  Mitchell, 


The  prejudices  of  men  emanate  from  the  mind, 
and  may  be  overcome;  the  prejudices  of  women 
emanate  from  the  heart,  and  are  impregnable. 

Boyer  cPArgens. 


Women  are  the  poetry  of  the  world  in  the  same 
sense  as  the  stars  are  the  poetry  of  heaven. 

Hargrave. 

The  pleasure  of  talking  is  the  inextinguishable 
passion  of  women,  coeval  with  the  act  of  breath- 
ing. Lesage. 

Women  of  the  world  never  use  harsh  expres- 
sions when  condemning  their  rivals. 

Anonymotts, 


(S» 


Women  are,  for  the  most  part,  good  or  bad,  as 
they  fall  amongst  those  who  practise  virtue  or 
vioo,  Johnson. 


Women  exceed  the  generality  of  men  in  love. 

La  BrvA/ere, 


Women  commend  a  modest  man,  and  like  him 
not.  Proverb. 


A  delicate  woman  is  the  best  instrument ;  she 
has  such  a  magnificent  compass  of  sensibilities. 

Holmes. 


To  say  •*  Everyone  is  talking  about  him "  is  a 
eulogy;  but  to  say  "Everyone  is  talking  about 
her"  is  an  elegy.  Anonymous. 


Curiosity  is  on©   of    the    forms    of    feminine 
bravery.  Victor  Hugo. 


»S3L 


Confound  the  make-believe   women    we    have 
burned  loose  in  our  streets.  Eelmes. 


It  is  easier  to  take  care  of  a  peck  of  fleas  than 
of  one  woman.  Proverb. 


Women  are  like  thermometers,  which,  on  a 
sudden  application  of  heat,  sink  at  first  a  few 
degrees,  as  preliminary  to  rising  a  good  many. 

Eichter. 


Until  we  know  woman,  we  know  not  strength 
of  love.  In  this  we  have,  perhaps,  the  best 
emblem  of  omnipotence  as  well  as  divine  good- 
ness. Chcmning, 

A  coquette  sparkles,  but  it  is  more  the  sparkle 
of  a  harmless  and  pretty  vanity  than  of  calcula- 
tion. Mitchell. 


Her  step  is  music,  and  her  voice  is  song. 


«s« 


^ISaoman  antr  tf^t  Wiit^ 


Man  carves  his  destiny;  woman  is  helped  to 
hers.  JtUia  Wwrd  Howe, 


If  the  women  did  not  make  idols  of  ns,  and  if 
they  saw  us  as  we  see  each  other;  would  life  be 
bearable  or  could  society  go  on  f 

Thacheray, 

"Women  are  apt  to  love  the  men  who  they  think 
have  the  largest  capacity  of  loving. 

Holmes. 

There  are  few  women  whose  charms  survive 
their  beauty.  La  Eoche/oucauld, 


A  woman  despises  a  man  for  loving  her  unless 
she  happens  to  return  his  love. 

Mizaheth  Stoddard. 


Beauty  is  the  first  gift  Nature  gives  to  woman, 
and  the  first  she  takes  from  her. 


IW 


Women  must  have  their  wills  while  they  live, 
because  they  make  none  when  they  die. 

Proverb. 


"Women  never  truly  command  till  they  have 
given  their  promise  to  obey ;  and  they  are  never 
in  more  danger  of  being  made  slaves  than  when 
the  men  are  at  their  feet.  FoArquhar. 


A  woman  who  is  gnided  by  the  head,  and  not  by 
the  heart,  is  a  social  pestilence.  Balzcic, 


An  asp  would  render  its  sting  more  venomous 
by  dipping  it  into  the  heart  of  a  coquette. 

Foineelot 


Voluptuaries  know  what  they  talk  about  wnen 
they  profess  not  to  care  for  sense  in  woman. 

Leigh  fftmL 


A  woman  who  has   surrendered  her  lips  has 
surrendered  everything.  Viaud. 


i6o 


WS^ovxm  anil  tje  WSiit$ 

A  woman  repents  sincerely  of  her  fault  only 
after  being  weaned  from  her  infatuation  for  the 
one  who  induced  her  to  commit  it. 

Jh  Zaiena, 


Let  the  great  soul  incarnated  in  some  woman's 
form,  poor  and  sad  and  single,  in  some  Dolly  or 
Joan,  go  out  to  service.  Em&rson^ 


Woman,  naturally  enthusiastic  of  the  good  and 
beautiful,  sanctifies  all  that  she  surrounds  with 
her  affection.  Merder, 


Woman  have  more  understanding  than  w« 
have,  and  women  of  spirit  are  not  to  be  won  by 
mourners.  Steele. 


Marry  a  virgin,  that  thou  mayst  teach  her  dis- 
creet manners.  Sesiod, 


i6i 


SHoman  ariti  tt^t  Wiitsi 

Pretty  women  gaze  at  a  beauty  with  envy, 
homely  women  with  spite,  old  men  with  regret, 
young  men  with  transport.  D^Argens. 


Hell  is  paved  with  women's  tongues. 

Abbd  Guy  on. 


A    woman    is    more   influenced   by   what   she 
divines  than  by  what  she  is  told. 

De  Lenclos. 


We  never  fall  in  love  with  a  woman,  in  distinc- 
tion from  women,  until  we  can  get  an  image  of 
her  through  a  pinhole.  Holmes. 


However    talkative    a    woman    may  be,   love 
teaches  her  silence.  Eochebrime. 


There  is  something  so  gross  in  the  carriage  of 
some  wives  that  they  lose  their  husbands'  hearts. 

BudgeU, 


i6s 


?12aoman  m^  tjr  W&.it^ 


Men  declare  their  love  before  they  feel  it; 
women  confess  theira  only  after  they  have 
proved  it.  De  Latenck. 


In  love  it  ia  only  the  commencement  that 
charms.  I  am  not  surprised  that  one  finds 
pleasure  in  frequently  recommencing. 

Prince  de  Ligne. 


The  heart  of  a  loving  woman  is  a  golden 
sanctuary,  where  often  there  reigns  an  idol  of 
clay.  Lifnayra^; 


Women  call  repentance  the  sweet  remembrance 
of  their  faults  and  the  bitter  regret  of  their  in 
ability  to  recommence  them. 


Virtue,  with  some  women,  is  but  the  precaution 
ol  locking  doors.  LemotUey, 


163 


She  had  married  her  husband  for  his  wit,  and 
was  willing  co  do  the  next  best  thing  for  any  man 
who  was  wittier.  Francis  Prevost. 


Women  are  often  ruined  by  their  sensitiveness 
and  saved  by  their  coquetry. 

Mdlle.  Azais. 


In  love  only  the  awkward  are  punished — like 
the  Spartan  thieves.  Anonymous. 


The  action  <^  woman  on  our  destiny  is  unceas- 
ing. ZfOrd  Beaconsfield. 


The  weaknesses  of  women  have  been  given  them 
by  nature  to  exercise  the  virtues  of  men. 

Mme,  Neeher, 


The  most   chaste   woman    may    be  the   most 
voluptuous,  if  she  loves.  Miraheau. 


164 


Love    renders    chaste    the     most    voluptuous 
pleasures.  Virey. 


Manners,  morals,  customs  change :  the  passions 
are  always  the  same. 

Mme.  de  FlahauL 


Discretion  is  more  necessary  to   women  than 
eloquence.  Du  Bose. 


Marriage  is  a  lottery  in  which  men  stake  their 
liberty,  and  women  their  happiness. 

Mme,  de  Biettx, 


Orpheus  went  to  Hell  to  find  his  wife:  how  . 
many  widowers  would  not  even  go  to  Heaven  to 
find  theirs  ?  Fetit-Senn, 


When  a  lover  gives,  he  demands — and  much 
more  than  he  has  given.  Faem/y, 


i«S 


A  reputation  for  snccess  has  as  much  inflaence 
with  women  as  a  reputation  for  wealth  has  with 
men.  Lord  Beaconsfield. 


Women  give  themselves  to  God  when  the  Devil 
wants  nothing  more  to  do  with  them. 

Sophie  Amovld. 


The  beauty  of  a  young  girl  should  speak  to  the 
imagination,  and  not  to  the  senses. 

Konr, 


Prudery  is  the  hypocrisy  of  modesty. 

Massias, 


Women  distrust  men  too  much  in  general,  and 
not  enough  in  particular.  Commerson. 


There    is  a    magic   in   Duty    which    sustains 
judges,  inflames  warriors  and  cools  the  married. 


There  are  beautiful  flowers  that  are  scentless, 
and  beautiful  women  that  are  unlovable. 


Love  is  a  beggar  who  still  begs  when  one  has 
given  him  everything.  Bochepedre, 


The  quarrels  of  lovers  are  like  summer  showers 
that  leave  the  country  more  verdant  and  beautifuL 

Mme»  Necker, 


The  desire  to  please  is  bom  in  woman  before 
the  desire  to  love,  De  Lendos. 


A  prude  ought  to  be  condemned  to  meet  only 
indiscreet  lovers.  Eaisson. 


Science  seldom  renders  men  amiable;   women 
oeyer,  Beauchene. 


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Women  are  in  the  moral  world  what  flowers 
are  in  the  physioaL  Mar^chal. 


Who  loves  not  women,  wine  and  song,  remaina 
u  fool  his  whole  life  long. 

Martin  Luther, 


Virtue  and  Love  are  two  ogres :  one  must  eat 
the  other.  D'HoudetoL 


LoTe  never  dies  of  starvation^   but  often  of 
indigestion.  De  Lendos. 


Women  swallow  at  one  mouthful  the  lie  that 
flatters,  and  drink  drop  by  drop  a  truth  that  is 
bitter.  Diderot. 


A  woman  with  whom  one   discusses    love 
always  in  expectation  of  something. 

Paincelot. 


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fHoman  antr  t$e  SSaite 

The  society  of  women  endangers  men's  moralfl 
and  refines  their  manners. 

MorUesqtiieu, 


Love  pleases  more  than  marriage,  for  the 
reason  that  romance  is  more  interesting  than 
history.  Cham/ort. 


Fortune  hath  somewhat  of  the  nature  of  a 
woman,  who,  if  she  be  too  closely,  wooed,  is 
commonly  the  further  off.  Cha/rles  V, 


Great  pleasures  are  serious:  pleasures  of  love 
do  not  make  us  laugh.  Voltaire, 


One  is  always  a  woman's  first  lover. 

De  Laclos, 


Even  if  women  were  immortal,  they  could  never 
foresee  their  last  lover,  Lammenais, 


«a9 


Devotion  is  the  last  love  of  women. 

St  Evremond, 


Love,   that    sometimes    corrupts    pure   bodies, 
often  purifies  corrupt  hearts.  LaUna. 


Coquetry  is  a  continual  lie,  which  renders  a 
woman  more  contemptible  and  more  dangerous 
than  a  courtesan  who  never  lies. 

De  Varennes, 


Marriage  is  often  but  ennni  for  two. 

Commerson. 


Love  that  seldom  gives  ns  happiness,  at  least 
makes  ns  dream  of  it.  S4nanoowrU 


"Woman  is  the  most  precious  jewel  taken  from 
Nature's  casket  for  the  ornamentation  and  happi- 
ness oi  man.  Guyar^-, 


«^| 


Wiomm  antr  ft^t  JSSB.iiB 


Marriage  is  a  feast  where  the  grace  is  sometimes 
better  than  the  dinner.  Lacon. 


Love  is  like  medical  science — the  art  of  assisting 
Nature.  LaMemcmd. 


To  continue  love  in  marriage  is  a  science. 

Mme.  Reyhcmd. 


The  mistake  of  many  women  is  to  return  senti- 
ment for  gallantry.  Jouy, 


It  is  not  love  that  ruins  us ;  it  is  the  way  we 
make  it.  Bv^sy-Edbutin. 


Marriage  in  our  days? — I  would   almost  say 
that  it  is  a  rape  by  contract. 

Michdet. 

A  coquette  often  loses  her  reputation  while  she 
possesses  her  virtue.  Spectator, 


Ift 


ISEoman  antr  ti^z  Wiitsi 

A  lover  is  a  man  who  endeavotirs  to  be  more 
amiable  than  it  is  possible  for  him  to  be :  this  is 
the  reason  why  almost  all  lovers  are  ridiculous. 

Chatnfort. 


Those  who  always  speak  well  of  women  do  not 
know  them  enough ;  those  who  always  speak  ill 
of  them  do  not  know  them  at  all. 

Pigault-I/ebrtm, 


Possession  is  the  touchstone  of  love. 

Panage, 

Beauty  is  the  first  gift  Naturer  gives  to  woman, 
and  the  first  she  takes  from  her. 


It  is  a  terrible  thing  to  be  obliged  to  love  by 
contract.  Bussy-Eobbutin, 


Our  strong  passions    break    into  a  thousand 
purposes;  women  have  one. 

Lord  BeaconsfielcL 


fr» 


Women   alone  can  organise   a  drawing-room 
man  succeeds  sometimes  in  a  library. 

Lard  Beaconsfield. 


Male  firmness  is  very  often  obstinacy.  Women 
have  always  something  better,  worth  all  qualities. 
They  have  tact.  Lord  Beaconsfield. 


The  woman  who  is  talked  about  is  generally 
virtuous,  and  she  is  only  abused  because  she 
devotes  to  one  the  charms  which  all  wish  to 
enjoy.  Lord  Beaconsfield. 


There  is  no  mortification,  however  keen,  no 
misery,  however  desperate,  which  the  spirit  of 
woman  cannot  in  some  degree  Kghten  or  alleviate. 

Lord  Beaconsfield. 


The  affections  are  the  children  of  ignorance; 
when  the  horizon  of  our  experience  expands,  and 
models  multiply,  lo7e  and  admiration  imper- 
ceptibly Tanish.  Lord  Beaconsfield. 


173 


Where   there    are    crowned    heads    there    are 
always  some  charming  women. 

Lord  Beaconsjield, 


There  is  nothing  a  man  of  good  sense  dreads 
in  a  wife  so  much  as  her  having  more  sense  than 
himself.  Fielding. 


It  is   only   a  woman   that  can  make  a  man 
become  the  parody  of  himself. 

French  Proverb, 


There  will  always  remain  something  to  be  said 
of  woman,  as  long  as  there  is  one  on  the  earth. 

Boujien, 


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